From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2008-05-31T10:56:35+09:00
Subject: Re: splitting help needed

Siep Korteling wrote:
> The method split splits up a string and it will put the parts in an 
> array.
> If you don't specify what to split on, it will split on newlines. Not 
> what you want. How to make clear that you want to split on " "?
> Just say split(" ") .
>

str = "hello world goodbye"
arr = str.split()
p arr

--output:--
["hello", "world", "goodbye"]


> (split will also work with a regular expression, like in your code. It's 
> faster

Wrong.

> and far more powerfull, but completely unreadable if you are not 
> familiar with it. In your code split("|") works.)
> 

Ahh, but the governing principle in the Ruby community is to make a Ruby 
script look as much like a Perl script as possible--efficiency be 
damned.  So who in their right mind would pass up a chance to use a 
hieroglyphic regex like: /\|/ in their code.  That's art.
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