From: Wayne Brissette <waynefb@...>
Date: 2011-10-31T19:40:29+09:00
Subject: Anything like FS in Ruby?

Coming over from AppleScript, one of the things I haven't been able to find is something like AppleScript's Text Item Delimiters or Awk's FS, where you can define separators for text files. For example, if I have something like this: 

<td>1</td>
<td>2</td>

If I set FS to <td>, then I could capture 1</td>, and 2</td>. 

While this isn't a great example because there are many other ways to capture this via regex. This becomes more useful with much more convoluted things. I haven't been able to find anything similar in Ruby, which probably means I need to rethink how I capture blocks of text and store them into arrays and hashes. 

Wayne