From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-11-23T14:43:50+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26196] Re: regex/split/scan question

Jos Backus <josb@cncdsl.com> writes:

> What I am looking for is an expression that returns a String instead of an
> Array, so I can do this in two steps (just like the Perl version):

I must be missing something, then. Given these four strings, what do
you want in ext and ext2?

   String       ext      ext2
   ======       ===      ====
   a
   a-b
   a-b-c
   a-b-c-d


Cheers


Dave