From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2008-09-29T08:18:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Counting Tabs and splitting by that number


From: "Nick Bo" <bornemann1@nku.edu>
>
> eg = "abcdefg \t\t\t\t\t hi"
> eg.split("\t) --> ["abcdefg ", "", "", "", " i"
> eg.split("/\t+/) just gives me ["abcdefg \t\t\t\t\t i"] cause it dont 
> matche the pattern given to the split at all so it makes whole thing 
> part of the array.

Huh?

>> eg = "abcdefg \t\t\t\t\t hi"
=> "abcdefg \t\t\t\t\t hi"
>> eg.split(/\t+/)
=> ["abcdefg ", " hi"]


Regards,

Bill