From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
Date: 2004-01-31T06:24:55+09:00
Subject: Re: principle of most suprise

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 08:25:08PM +0000, tony summerfelt wrote:
> gah, ruby is doing it to me again:
> 
>  logline=String.new("+ 30 Jan 12:20:09 [3988] addr: x.x.x.x")
>  tda=Array[(logline.split(/\[\d+\]/))]
>  tda.first

I believe the problem here is that split RETURNs an array.  You're creating a
new array out of what is already an array, and therefore getting a new
array containing one element, which is an array.
Just do

        tda = logline.split(/.../)


-Mark