From: Zhukov Pavel <gelios@...>
Date: 2008-06-24T19:51:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expressions and long text

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 2:18 PM, shaman <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:
> Guillermo.Acilu@koiaka.com pisze:
>>
>> [Note:  parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]
>>
>> Hello guys,
>>
> [cut]
>>
>> 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 "."?
>>
> Hi,
> maybe you should to try this: words = str.split(/\.\s*/)
>
> it works for me:
>
> irb(main):008:0> str = "Ruby is great. We all know that."
> => "Ruby is great. We all know that."
> irb(main):009:0> words = str.split(/\.\s*/)
> => ["Ruby is great", "We all know that"]
> irb(main):010:0> words[0]
> => "Ruby is great"
> irb(main):011:0> words[1]
> => "We all know that"
>
> greetings
>
>

even more simple

irb(main):001:0> "Ruby is great. We all know that.".split(".")
=> ["Ruby is great", " We all know that"]