James Gray
5/26/2005 9:03:00 PM
On May 26, 2005, at 3:55 PM, Oliver Cromm wrote:
> I just stumbled over the following effect and (trial-and error)
> workaround:
>
> p "abcxyxyxydef".split(/(xy)+/) #=> ["abc","xy","def"]
> p "abcxyxyxydef".split(/(?:xy)+/) #=> ["abc","def"]
>
> Why this difference?
A capture in a split() Regexp is taken to indicate pieces of the
separator you would like returned in the resulting set.
Hope that helps.
James Edward Gray II