From: Sam Duncan <sduncan@...>
Date: 2013-02-27T13:35:02+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby split not working properly

On 02/27/2013 05:24 PM, Scott Macri wrote:
> I'm trying to run the following command in irb on a mac:
>
> something.split('\')
>
> This doesn't work either:
> something.split("\")
>
> However, this just causes irb not return a result and prevents irb from
> being useable and I have to close it.
>
> Any thoughts as to why this is happening?  Is this a ruby bug?
>
> It only seems to happen with the \ only.....  This is a serious problem
> because I am attempting to parse the results of a Linux command which
> contains many \'s.  I have the exact same issue with:
> something.delete('\')
>
> Please help.... Thanks.
>
1.9.3p125 :001 > 'foo\bar'.split('\\')
  => ["foo", "bar"]

Something like that?

Sam