From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-09-18T21:04:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie: what's Ruby idiom for word-by-word input?

On Sep 18, 2007, at 1:22 AM, Bertram Scharpf wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Am Dienstag, 18. Sep 2007, 06:15:05 +0900 schrieb Robert Klemme:
>> module WordIO
>>   def each_word(&b)
>>     each do |line|
>>       line.scan(/\w+/, &b)
>
> Loath to criticize it, but
>
>   irb(main):001:0> "tr�nen�berstr�mt".scan /\w+/
>   => ["tr", "nen", "berstr", "mt"]
>   irb(main):002:0>
>
> Sigh!

$ irb -Ku
 >> "tr�nen�berstr�mt".scan /\w+/
=> ["tr�nen�berstr�mt"]

James Edward Gray II