From: Guillermo.Acilu@...
Date: 2008-06-21T02:56:23+09:00
Subject: Regular expressions and long text

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Hello guys,

I've started with Ruby a month ago and I am doing some works with strings 
and regular expressions. I am trying to take a long text and store the 
individual sentences in an array. I can split a sentence in words and 
store them in an array, but I cannot manage to do it with sentences.

I have used the following assignment to work with the words:

str = "Ruby is great"
words = []
words = str.scan(/\w+/)

The result is words[0]="Ruby" words[1]="is" and words[3]="great"

I would like to do the following:

str = "Ruby is great. We all know that."

and get words[0]="Ruby is great" and ruby[1]="We all know that"

Any ideas on how to do it with a regular expression instead of looping 
through the string looking for the "."?

Thanks,

Guillermo

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