From: Daniel Waite <rabbitblue@...>
Date: 2007-09-28T09:05:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Break apart a string by kind of characters

Gavin Kistner wrote:
> irb(main):001:0> s = 'a1000aa'
> => "a1000aa"
> irb(main):002:0> s.split( /(\d+)/ )
> => ["a", "1000", "aa"]

WOW! Freakin' awesome!

One caveat...

irb(main):004:0> '11aa1000aaa'.split(/(\d+)/)
=> ["", "11", "aa", "1000", "aaa"]

For some reason it answers with a blank element, but I'm sure that's an 
easy one to solve.

Thanks, Gavin!
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