From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
Date: 2003-09-16T03:08:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Natural order sort

On Monday, September 15, 2003, at 12:07 PM, Alan Davies wrote:
> Interesting.  I always assumed split filtered out the matching 
> sections, but it appears that you can make them appear in the 
> resulting array by putting brackets round the relevant bit in the 
> regexp.

Yup.  That's because it was modeled after the split function in
Perl, which behaves exactly the same way.

Given the relative paucity[1] of Ruby documentation, familiarity with
Perl can be a good way to set your behavioral expectations.  Of course,
if it's something you can test (as opposed to a feature which might or
might not occur to you at all), that's the best way to determine the
behavior.

-Mark

[1] I did say "relative".  There's just a heckuva lot more info out there
about Perl.  The Ruby situation is steadily improving, however, and the
Pickaxe book is a wondrous thing. :)