From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2007-08-06T10:10:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Doubts on char patterns into String.each argument

On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:43:07 +0900, Carlos Ortega wrote:

> "Substring1 Substring2 Substring3".each( '\s*' ) { | substring |
>    puts "[" + substring +"]"
>    }

In ruby, if you want something to be interpreted as a regular expression, 
you must declare it as a regular expression. Hence /\s*/ would be 
correct. Except that each() only accepts strings, so you can't use a 
regular expression with it.

Use
"Substring1 Substring2 Substring3".split(/\s+/).each{|x| puts x}
instead

-- 
Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/