From: Ammar Ali <ammarabuali@...>
Date: 2010-12-07T14:47:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Split version requirements

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 7:20 AM, Intransition <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
> Of course, just my luck it doesn't work in Ruby 1.8 :-(

I should have mentioned that.

Just a thought, I suspect you might have already considered, why not
just use match instead of split?

>> /(\w+)\s+([>=<]\s*\d+\.\d+)\s+([>=<]\s*\d+\.\d+)/.match("rake > 0.8 < 1.0").captures
[ "rake", "> 0.8", "< 1.0" ]

Sure it's long and not as elegant as split, but it's clear, I think,
explicit, and cross-version compatible.

Regards,
Ammar