From: Farrel Lifson <farrel.lifson@...>
Date: 2008-08-25T22:51:58+09:00
Subject: Re: split not returning an array?

2008/8/25 Amanda .. <a.etherton@hotmail.com>:
> Can anyone explain to me what's happening here? It looks like the split
> method is returning the original strings without the '+' characters, and
> not an array as it should be...

I have a feeling you're dealing with data that has passed through
CGI.unescape somewhere before you called split on it:

irb(main):006:0> CGI.uescape('science+students')
=> "science students"

Farrel
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