From: Nick Bo <bornemann1@...>
Date: 2008-09-29T08:37:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Counting Tabs and splitting by that number

Bill Kelly wrote:
> 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

it wouldnt give me the two, i so wish it did but i found a way around it 
this is my solution and it works perfect
eg = "abcdefg \t\t\t\t\t\t hi"
splitArray = eg.split("\t")
splitArray = splitArray.delete("")

loop
arrayKey[i] = splitArray[0]
arrayValue[i] = splitArray[1]

Thanks for everyones help
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