From: Oscar Del Ben <thehcdreamer@...>
Date: 2008-05-30T18:28:45+09:00
Subject: Re: split a string at tab positions

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first, you should use double quote when you want to escape a character.

>> s = "a\tb"
=> "a\tb"
>> ss = s.split("\t")
=> ["a", "b"]



2008/5/30, suresh <suresh.amritapuri@gmail.com>:
>
> 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
>
>

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