From: john.slobbe@...
Date: 2008-10-20T23:44:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Way to split a string based on fixed length?

You can use:

 string.unpack "A8A8A4A2" # => ["0000000N", "0000000N", "0000", "00"]

Regards, John.

On 20/10/2008, Wayne Molina <wayne@econoffice.com> wrote:
> This is probably a newb question but I can't seem to figure it out.  I
> have a string I'm trying to parse, that is done via a fixed length
> format - it needs to be split on every 8th character in order for me to
> get a proper array list of it so I can do some additional operations on
> it.
>
> The string is something like this: '0000000N0000000N0000000N0000000N'
> and I need it to be an array containing something like: ['0000000N',
> '0000000N', '0000000N', '0000000N'].
>
> Is there a ruby method I can use to split the single string into groups
> of x number of characters, when there is no delimiter?
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