From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2008-05-20T15:52:18+09:00
Subject: Re: How is this split method working?

From: neeraj.jsr@gmail.com [mailto:neeraj.jsr@gmail.com] 
# I had never seen text.split[0..length] before. What's 
# happening here. I always saw  split being passed an argument 
# but never an array.

an array was *never passed.

try playing w irb,

text
#=> " This forum is connected to a mailing list that is read by thousands of people"

text.split
#=> ["This", "forum", "is", "connected", "to", "a", "mailing", "list", "that", "is", "read", "by", "thousands", "of", "people"]

text.split[0..5]
#=> ["This", "forum", "is", "connected", "to", "a"]

text.split[0..5].join " "
#=> "This forum is connected to a"

kind regards -botp