From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-09-28T09:08:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Break apart a string by kind of characters

On Sep 27, 2007, at 7:05 PM, Daniel Waite wrote:

> 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.

If you just want digits and non-digits, I suggest:

 >> '11aa1000aaa'.scan(/\D+|\d+/)
=> ["11", "aa", "1000", "aaa"]

James Edward Gray II