From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2011-07-25T00:26:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with Regex

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Gregory Ma <g.marcilhacy@gmail.com> wrote:
> I need help with a Regular Expression, I need to split the text on "- "
> on get the first element.

Try String#split:

>> ary = "I want this - not that.".split(" - ")
=> ["I want this", "not that."]
>> ary[0]
=> "I want this"

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