From: Stefan Kraemer Date: 2008-05-30T18:36:47+09:00 Subject: Re: split a string at tab positions Hi, > ss = s.split('\t') Regexes take the form /.../ (see http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Regexp.html) "a b c".split(/\t/) # tabs between the letters! does what you want. So long ... Stefan