From: Tim Greer <tim@...>
Date: 2009-02-05T15:54:33+09:00
Subject: Re: a simple command that splits up a string into numbers and letters

Tim Greer wrote:

> shawn bright wrote:
> 
>> [Note:  parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]
>> 
>> sorry, how do i split on a \d+ ?
>> sk
>> 
>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Tim Greer <tim@burlyhost.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> shawn bright wrote:
>>>
>>> > [Note:  parts of this message were removed to make it a legal
>>> > [post.]
>>> >
>>> > Hey all,
>>> >
>>> > i am looking for an easy way to split a string into letters and
>>> > numbers. so if i had a string '34JKBY103' i could get ['34',
>>> > 'JKBY', '103']
>>> >
>>> > I could write up something, but thought that if there was already
>>> > something out there that i hav'nt found, it would probably be
>>> > cleaner. thanks
>>> >
>>> > sk
>>>
>>> I don't know if there's anything out there now (there might be), but
>>> it
>>> seems pretty simple.  Just split on either \d+ or \D+, depending
>>> (unless I'm missing something in your requirement)?
> <please don't quote signatures>
> 
> Someone posted this already, but:
> 
> irb(main):010:0> s = "34JKBY103"
> => "34JKBY103"
> irb(main):011:0> s.scan(/\d+|\D+/)
> => ["34", "JKBY", "103"]
> irb(main):012:0>
> 
 

Also, remember, there are several ways to do this.  You can use an
actual split() function with a regular expression.

See: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html
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