From: Lloyd Linklater <lloyd@2live4.com>
Date: 2007-09-28T20:09:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Break apart a string by kind of characters

Gavin Kistner wrote:
> On Sep 27, 9:55 am, Daniel Waite <rabbitb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all, I've an interesting problem. Imagine the following string:
>>
>> 'a1000aa'
>>
>> I want to break it apart like so:
>>
>> [ 'a', '1000', 'aa' ]
> 
> irb(main):001:0> s = 'a1000aa'
> => "a1000aa"
> irb(main):002:0> s.split( /(\d+)/ )
> => ["a", "1000", "aa"]

Gavin, how in the WORLD does this bit of black magic work and how did 
you ever figure it out???
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