From: Mohit Sindhwani <mo_mail@...>
Date: 2008-06-03T01:28:31+09:00
Subject: Re: split a string at tab positions

Stefan Kraemer wrote:
> 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
>
>
I think his piece of code also works - in my mind, the problem is the 
single quotes surrounding the \t.  I've just got done with processing 
lots of delimited data and went through the same frustration.  ',' would 
work but '\t' wouldn't! :)

Cheers,
Mohit.
6/3/2008 | 12:26 AM.