From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@...>
Date: 2011-04-21T19:52:49+09:00
Subject: Re: splitting binary data

2011/4/20 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com>:
> str = "\xFF\xFF" +
>      "\x61" +
>      "\xFF\xFF" +
>      "\x62" +
>      "\xFF\xFF" +
>      "\x63" +
>      "\xFF\xFF" +
>      "\x64"
>
> pattern = "\xFF\xFF"
> p str.split(pattern)
>
> --output:--
> ["", "a", "b", "c", "d"]

Note that this fails under Ruby1.9:

  p str.split(pattern)
  ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in UTF-8
        from (irb):10:in `split'

-- 
Iñaki Baz Castillo
<ibc@aliax.net>