From: "Simon Kröger" <SimonKroeger@...>
Date: 2007-08-12T17:09:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Split a string based on change of character

Pe�a schrieb:
> From: William James [mailto:w_a_x_man@yahoo.com] 
> # s = "ZBBBCZZ"
> #     ==>"ZBBBCZZ"
> # s.scan( /((.)\2*)/ ).transpose.first
> #     ==>["Z", "BBB", "C", "ZZ"]
> # s.gsub( /(.)(?!\1)/, "\\1\n" ).split
> #     ==>["Z", "BBB", "C", "ZZ"]
> 
> ruby hacker, James, that is cool! gotta keep this.
> kind regards -botp

Yeah, nice!

i think one can simplify from

s.gsub( /(.)(?!\1)/, "\\1\n" ).split

to

s.gsub(/(.)\1*/, '\0 ').split

?

cheers

Simon