From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-04-07T02:14:13+09:00
Subject: Re: String.split crashes my program

On 06.04.2009 18:15, Mark S Bilk wrote:
> On Apr 6, 8:14 am, Tomas Na <kraz...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> It reaches a block of code which causes it to become unresponsive. That
>> to me indicates a crash. Maybe not to you, but this discussion isn't
>> about semantics.
>>
>> Here is my output:
>> C:\Users\Tomas\Ruby>ruby test.rb
>> Split this text
>>
>> Then nothing. We sit here for ever while it "hasnt" crashed.
> 
> So "Split this text" is the string you're scanning?
> Seems like the program is in a loop, rather than crashed.
> Would you please copy and paste the entire exact content
> of test.rb into a Usenet article in between two lines
> of dashes ("-------------")?
> Even better would be to zip it and put it on a website.
> Maybe you have some weird characters in the file.

pastie would work as well.  I agree, we should see the whole program 
that is misbehaving, or better the smallest program that exhibits the 
described behavior.

Kind regards

	robert