From: Harry Kakueki <list.push@...>
Date: 2009-07-23T18:13:17+09:00
Subject: Re: String spliting and inclusion

>>
>>  In Ruby 1.9 (or Oniguruma that is) the negative lookahead assertion
>>  might lead to the most elegant solution:
>>
>>    /.{,50}(?!\B)/
> Nahh that leaves us with spaces at the beginning of the line
>
>

p str.scan(/\s*(.{1,50})(?!\S)/)

Or, if there are consecutive spaces between words,
squeeze them out first.

p str.squeeze(" ").scan(/\s*(.{1,50})(?!\S)/)


Harry


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