From: Paul Danese <pdanese@...>
Date: 2007-04-20T23:46:25+09:00
Subject: splitting a string into words using multiple possible separators

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Hi,

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I'm using ruby 1.8.5

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i have an input string whose 'words' are separated by whitespace and/or
commas and/or semicolons

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I want to remove the separators (,;\s) and place each 'word' into an
array

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e.g.,

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this string =3D> 'my uncle, jumped    over;=20

the moon'

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would be converted into an array of elements ['my', 'uncle', 'jumped',
'over', 'the', 'moon']

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currently, i'm doing this (in this example, rx_input holds the string
and rx_numbers is the array):

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    rx_input.gsub!(/[,;\s]/, ' ')

    rx_input.squeeze!(' ')

    rx_numbers =3D rx_input.split(' ')

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is there a simpler /more elegant/ way of doing this (accounting for the
possibility of double-spaces, etc)?

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tia


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