From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2007-11-01T14:58:48+09:00
Subject: Re: String#split and groups in the field separator RE

mortee wrote:
> Is this expected behaviour? I haven't seen anything related to this
> mentioned in the API docs...


$ri String#split
...
...
     if _pattern_ is a +Regexp+, _str_ is divided where the pattern
     matches. Whenever the pattern matches a zero-length string, _str_
     is split into individual characters.
...



pickaxe2, p. 619 adds a line to the end of that description:

...
If pattern includes groups, these groups will be included in the 
returned values.
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