From: Chris Shea <cmshea@...>
Date: 2007-02-02T14:30:06+09:00
Subject: Re: halving a string

On Feb 1, 10:24 pm, "Chris Shea" <cms...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 1, 9:57 pm, "Bill Kelly" <b...@cts.com> wrote:
>
> > From: "Chris Shea" <cms...@gmail.com>
>
> > > Tested, and failed. The index returns the position of the very first
> > > space. (Also, it would have to be str[0..(str.size / 2)].index(' ')
> > > but, still, it's no good).
>
> > rindex()
>
> > :)
>
> > Regards,
>
> > Bill
>
> rindex, of course. Here's my current version then:
>
> class String
>   def halve
>     i = self[0..(length / 2)].rindex(' ')
>     if i.nil?
>       if include?(' ')
>         split(' ', 1)
>       else
>         [self, '']
>       end
>     else
>       [self[0..i].strip, self[i..-1].strip]
>     end
>   end
> end

ahem: split(' ', 2)