From: Wayne Brissette <waynefb@...>
Date: 2011-11-01T06:12:24+09:00
Subject: single vs. double quotes (was: Anything like FS in Ruby?)

Thanks everybody. It's just a matter of rethinking things, but the Justin you were spot on. The record separator was exactly what I was thinking about (or something similar actually).

I figured out why my parsing of data wasn't going so well. Maybe somebody can point me to better documentation on why this happens. 

If I do this: 

myarray = somestring.split('\n\n') 

My array ends up with a single item

If I do this: 

myarray = somestring.split("\n\n") 

my array ends up with the breaks exactly where I expected them and I end up with multiple items in my array. 

so, why is " not equal to ' in this instance? 

Thanks,
Wayne