From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-05-31T19:08:04+09:00
Subject: Re: splitting help needed

Hi --

On Sat, 31 May 2008, 7stud -- wrote:

> 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.

My benchmarks suggest that it's a little faster (about 10%).


David

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