From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2009-07-22T19:58:21+09:00
Subject: Re: String spliting and inclusion

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, 7stud -- wrote:

> Robert Dober wrote:
>> On 7/22/09, David A. Black <dblack@rubypal.com> wrote:
>>>> strings no longer than 50 characters in length. At present I have the
>>>> and only 20 characters remain it misses them off the output (it outputs
>>>>
>>>
>>>  Try this. I don't guarantee robustness.
>>>
>>>   str.scan(/\b.{0,50}(?:$|\b)/m)
>> I fail to see why you put a \b at the beginning David,
>> would you mind to explain?
>>
>
> Yes. Please explain that.  Also please explain why you don't have
> {1,50}?
>
> Or, will you claim the 5th under the robustness disclaimer?

I won't claim anything. Feel free to experiment with the code, which
I've already said repeatedly isn't a full solution, and see what you
come up with.


David

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