From: Harry Kakueki <list.push@...>
Date: 2007-05-07T19:20:12+09:00
Subject: Re: separate Chinese and English! with Ruby

On 5/7/07, Nanyang Zhan <sxain@hotmail.com> wrote:> Don't get me wrong, because I just want to know how to separate English> words from a string with ruby.> There are strings (UTF-8 encoded) to record people's name,> like:>> 彫功，献戦凧 Morgan Freeman> 下続帽，璃旋帽 Bruce Willis> 川弌苧 Lee xiao ming> these strings containing Chinese name(without space between characters),> separated by a space, following an English name>> or> Frank Darabont> Just an English name.>> Would you give me an idea how to separate these Chinese characters(if> any)?>> --> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.>>
Try something like this.
t = str.split(//).partition {|x| x=~/[a-z]|[A-Z]/ }p t[0].joinp t[1].join
Harry
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