From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2009-05-14T23:37:40+09:00
Subject: Re: need to split string into letters and numbers

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 4:34 PM, James Gray <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
> On May 14, 2009, at 9:28 AM, shawn bright wrote:
>
>> Hey all
>
> Hello.
>
>> I need to be able to split a string into lumps of numbers and letters.
>> so for example if st = "JJ542JQ83" would become ['JJ', '542','JQ',"83"]
>>
>> i have been using st.split(/([a-zA-Z]+)(?=[0-9])/) , this does pretty well
>> most of the time,
>> but also fails sometimes to do what i need it to . ( like for 202GP)
>
> I suggest:
>
>  str.scan(/\d+|[a-zA-Z]+/)
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> James Edward Gray II
>
>
ok James so you beat me to the line, but I gotta fancy 1.9 regexen instead ;)

str.scan /\p{Alpha}+|\p{Digit}+/u

which might help unicoders.

Cheers
Robert




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