From: Jan Friedrich Date: 2007-03-16T23:04:54+09:00 Subject: Re: Splitting A String Satish Talim wrote: > 'a quick "brown fox" jumped "over the lazy" dog'.split This was also my first idea, but ['a', 'quick', '"brown', 'fox"', 'jumped', '"over', 'the', 'lazy"', 'dog'] != ['a', 'quick', 'brown fox', 'jumped', 'over the lazy', 'dog'] regards Jan -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.