From: Gennady Bystritsky <Gennady.Bystritsky@...>
Date: 2009-03-05T12:24:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Cut a string each 80 character

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kyle Schmitt [mailto:kyleaschmitt@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 6:45 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: Cut a string each 80 character
> 
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Guillaume Loader <picpic72@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Ooops!
> > Replace "each" by "every"
> >
> > Sorry!
> > - Show quoted text -
> > --
> > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
> >
> >
> 
> I'm thinking you want scan.
> 
> string.scan(/.{8}/)
> 
> 
> You may need to adjust the regex a little, but that should match 8
> charicters at a time...
> I think if the length isn't a multiple of 8 it may just ignore the
> last bunch of chars... but you get the idea

For that not to be ignored, use {1,8} instead of just {8}. As a minor note, OP wanted 80, not 8 ;-)

Gennady.

> 
> edit the regex as needed.
> 
> PS: Scan is _awesome_ when you need to do some quick an dirty log
> analysis
> data=File.read(foo).scan(regex)