From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2007-04-27T19:54:50+09:00
Subject: Re: php's chunk_split alternative in ruby

On Behalf Of Firstname Secondname:
# Exactly like that :)

Ah, do not forget, in ruby land, you can be flexible :)

C:\family\ruby>cat  test.rb
class String
   alias old_split split
   def split arg1=' ', *args
      case arg1
         when Integer
            self.scan(/.{1,#{arg1}}/)
         else
            old_split arg1, *args
      end #case
   end #def
end #class

p "this is a test string. okay?".split
p "this is a test string. okay?".split(/i/)
p "this is a test string. okay?".split(3)

C:\family\ruby>ruby test.rb
["this", "is", "a", "test", "string.", "okay?"]
["th", "s ", "s a test str", "ng. okay?"]
["thi", "s i", "s a", " te", "st ", "str", "ing", ". o", "kay", "?"]

Is that ok?
kind regards -botp