From: Christian Kruse <ckruse@...>
Date: 2002-04-04T00:39:06+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expression question

Hoi,

On Thu, 4 Apr 2002 00:24:44 +0900
"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]+(?=;)/)

Why don't you use the 'split' method?

pieces = input.split(';');

You can get more infos at 'ri String#split'

Greetings,
 CK