From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2008-07-31T03:07:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Suggestions for improving a trivial tag parser

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
> What about
>
> eles = split( %r{(</?.*?>)} ).delete_if{|x| x.empty? }
> eles.size.one? ? eles.first : eles

I needed something a little more restricted than that, but you gave me
almost exactly what I need:

      def parse_inline_styles(text) #:nodoc:
        segments = text.split( %r{(</?[ib].*?>)} ).delete_if{|x| x.empty? }
        segments.size == 1 ? segments.first : segments
      end

This passes my specs, and so long as people don't see any major issues
with it, it looks great.

I knew there had to be a way to do this with split.  Thanks Robert.

-greg