From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2007-09-17T10:15:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Split

On Sep 16, 7:03 pm, Lee Jarvis <jarv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok guys im looking for something sexy to split this HTML (This HAS to be
> done using split, nothing else)
>
> <b>hi</b>, <b>there</b>, <b>fred</b>,
>
> I would like to split them values into an array, Is there any chance
> this can be done? Because im beginning to think there isn't


"<b>hi</b>, <b>there</b>, <b>fred</b>,".scan(/<b>(.*?)<.b>/).
flatten
    ==>["hi", "there", "fred"]

"<b>hi</b>, <b>there</b>, <b>fred</b>,".
split(%r{<b>|</b>[, ]*(?:<b>)?})
    ==>["", "hi", "there", "fred"]