From: Adam Salter <adam.q.salter@...>
Date: 2009-09-11T16:08:02+09:00
Subject: Re: string.each

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Did not know that.
... and I already thought ruby was awesome...

-Adam


On 10/09/2009, at 3:47 PM, 7stud -- wrote:

> But instead of splitting a super long string and then re-joining it,  
> you
> can just split off the first word like this:
>
> str = "a really long string"
>
> first_word, the_rest = str.split(" ", 2)
>
> p first_word
> p the_rest
>
> --output:--
> "a"
> "really long string"


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