From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-04-27T18:57:20+09:00
Subject: Re: php's chunk_split alternative in ruby

Mister Twister wrote:
> hello,
> how could I chunk_split string
> 
> mylongstring = "some long long long string"
> 
> into smaller strings of length 3.
> 
> In PHP it is
> 
> chunk_split(mylongstring,3);
> 
irb(main):005:0> "some long long long string".scan(/.{1,3}/)
=> ["som", "e l", "ong", " lo", "ng ", "lon", "g s", "tri", "ng"]

Like that?  If not, you'll need to give an example of the output you're 
trying to achieve (which is generally a good idea anyway...).

-- 
Alex