From: "DanDiebolt.exe" <dandiebolt@...>
Date: 2009-02-05T16:18:34+09:00
Subject: Re: a simple command that splits up a string into numbers and letters

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I sort of got hung up on doing this with split. Using scan might be easier than split. However it is worth noting that when you are splitting on a pattern you can keep what the pattern matches in the results array by capturing with a set of ()s. Compare these two statements:

irb> 'a,b,c'.split(/(,)/)
=> ["a", ",", "b", ",", "c"]

irb> 'a,b,c'.split(/,/)
=> ["a", "b", "c"]
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