From: suresh Date: 2008-05-30T18:19:50+09:00 Subject: split a string at tab positions Hi I am a newbie to ruby and when i tried to split a string at tab positions, it didnt work. Could you please tell me where I am going wrong? Code is pasted. #!/usr/bin/ruby1.9 s = "a b" ss = s.split('\t') puts ss[0] It just prints the entire line without splitting... suresh