From: Loga Ganesan <loganathan_gpt@...>
Date: 2009-04-06T23:32:58+09:00
Subject: Re: String.split crashes my program

Tomas Na wrote:
> I am trying to split a string by spaces and then loop through each
> entry, adding it to an array if it is more then 4 characters long and
> not already in the array.
> 
> I haven't got very far with it, but I have come up against this problem
> where split just crashes my program with no errors.
> 
> def GetUniqueTextValues(sText)
>   aTags = Array.new
> 
>   puts sText
>   aTags = sText.split
>   puts sText
> 
>   return aTags
> end
> 
> What happens when I run this is the text is output for the first puts,
> but not for the second. If I comment out the split then the text is
> output twice, once for each puts. I read in the ruby docs that split
> with no parameters will split by space, but I also tried split(' ') and
> split(/ /) with the same crashing effect. I use split another place in
> my program like this:
> 
> saHeadParts = line.split(/: /)
> 
> and it works fine, so I don't understand why it wont work this time. Can
> anyone help me fix this?


Its working for me. But I couldn't get your actual problem. If you give 
me further details as like your code, your ruby version, It would be 
useful for me
to track the problem.


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