From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2011-04-08T03:39:37+09:00
Subject: Re: String.gsub with regex and block

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 8:10 PM, 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> "John Smith".scan(/\S+/) do |match|
>  puts match
> end

irb(main):001:0> "John;Smith".scan /\S+/ do |match|
irb(main):002:1* puts match
irb(main):003:1> end
John;Smith
=> "John;Smith"

Ups.

Better:

irb(main):04:0> "John;Smith".scan /\w+/ do |match|
irb(main):05:1* puts match
irb(main):06:1> end
John
Smith

The code still makes assumptions about the data, though: it is uniform
in that only the first n parts are the name, and not n[+|-]1.

-- 
Phillip Gawlowski

Though the folk I have met,
(Ah, how soon!) they forget
When I've moved on to some other place,
There may be one or two,
When I've played and passed through,
Who'll remember my song or my face.