From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2003-06-26T22:38:14+09:00
Subject: Re: String#split(' ') and whitespace (perl user's surprise)

>>>>> "W" == Wesley J Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net> writes:

W> This seems like a ruby bug: limit seems to be counting whitespace 
W> characters and not whitespace "runs" when ' ' is given as the pattern.

W> But maybe it's a documentation bug. Who knows?

 Well, to see what it do

svg% ruby -e 'p "a b".split(" ", 2); p "a  b".split(" ", 2);'
["a", "b"]
["a", " b"]
svg% 


 it remove just the first space when it has a limit parameter


Guy Decoux