From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-05-31T19:08:21+09:00
Subject: Re: splitting help needed

Hi --

On Sat, 31 May 2008, 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(" ") .

Actually without an argument it will split on any amount of
whitespace. I think you're thinking of how strings enumerate, which is
(by default) as lines:

   "abc\ndef".to_a   # ["abc\n", "def"]


David

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