From: Raveendran Jazzez <jazzezravi@...>
Date: 2008-06-25T14:25:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expressions and long text

Hi,

I think u expect this output.. so pls try it..

str="Ruby is great. We all know that."
a= str.split('.').join(' ')
words=[]
words=a.scan(/\w+/)


=> words=["Ruby","is","great","We","all","know","that"]

Regards,
P.Raveendran
http://raveendran.wordpress.com



unknown wrote:
> 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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