From: Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2003-06-26T22:45:37+09:00
Subject: Re: String#split(' ') and whitespace (perl user's surprise)

Does that sound like a bug to you?

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From: ts [mailto:decoux@moulon.inra.fr]
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 8:38 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Cc: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
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