From: Siep Korteling <s.korteling@...>
Date: 2010-03-23T06:07:06+09:00
Subject: Re: splitting text string

Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> 
> Another idea:
> 
> $ irb -r scanf
>  >> "123456789".scanf("%3d%5d%1d")
> => [123, 45678, 9]
> 
> (note that the strings are converted to integers for you)

"123456789".unpack("A3A5A1")
#=> ["123", "45678", "9"]

I don't know how to use unpack to deliver integers. Strings may better 
in this case anyway, because leading zero's survive.

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