From: Wesley J Landaker <wjl@...>
Date: 2003-06-26T22:43:54+09:00
Subject: Re: String#split(' ') and whitespace (perl user's surprise)

On Thursday 26 June 2003 6:14 am, Mike Stok wrote:

> In irb:
> >> '    A     50       3 for 130'.split(' ', 3)
>
> => ["A", "50", "      3 for 130"]
>
> What I'd like Ruby to do
>
> >> '    A     50       3 for 130'.split(' ', 3)
>
> => ["A", "50", "3 for 130"]

I should have mentioned that as a workaround, you can do this:

'    A     50       3 for 130'.split(' ', 3).map { |x| x.strip }

I agree you shouldn't have to do that, but it will get you going with 
minimal changes.

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