From: Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@...>
Date: 2002-04-04T00:32:12+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expression question

* Firestone, Mark - Technical Support (mark.firestone@gossgraphic.co.uk) wrote:

> I want to seperate a string of commands seperated by semi-colons...
>
> here's what I have so far by way of a test...
>
> happy = input.scan(/[0-9 a-z]+(?=;)/)
>
> this does what I want, almost.  I only get strings with semicolons
> AFTER them.  This cuts off the last command in the list.. how can I
> get ALL the strings SEPERATED by semicolons.

String#split is more suited to this, being designed to split a string on
arbitary boundaries:

foo = bar.split(';')

or to nuke whitespace around it:

foo = bar.split(/\s*;\s*/)

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