From: Siep Korteling <s.korteling@...>
Date: 2008-09-29T07:45:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Counting Tabs and splitting by that number

Nick Bo wrote:
> Basically i have a document which I am opening and then i am reading
(...)
> 
> I know there is alot in my message so here is a summary:
> 
> HOW TO COUNT \t IN A STRING THEN SPLIT BY THAT NUMBER OF \t

Split on \t anyway and dump all empty results, like this:

str = 'beep+xml\t\t\t atom'
res = str.split('\t').reject{|item|item.empty?}
p res

hth,

Siep
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