From: "Wolfgang Nádasi-donner" <ed.odanow@...>
Date: 2007-08-11T18:27:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Split a string based on change of character

Andrew Savige wrote:
>   s = "ZBBBCZZ"
>   x = s.scan(/((.)\2*)/).map {|i| i[0]}

Maybe this ist faster:

result = []
"ZBBBCZZ".scan(/((.)\2*)/){erg.push [$~[0]]}
p erg # => [["Z"], ["BBB"], ["C"], ["ZZ"]]

Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner
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