comp.lang.ruby

Logan Capaldo

1/31/2006 8:06:00 PM

On Jan 31, 2006, at 1:56 PM, Nuralanur@aol.com wrote:

> Dear Nick,
>
> I'm glad things finally worked out for you.
> Actually, I things like '\352' do not to split any further (at
> least on my
> system (cygwin 6.7.0.0-6) on Windows XP),
> this seems to be some encoding for "ê" etc. that is Windows-
> specific.
> In particular, it is not equivalent to a string composed of '\',
> '3','5','2'
> (you would have to double the '\' in the regexp if you were searching
> for a string '\352' in a text).
>
> But the line
>
> splitted_text=text.split(/(?=.)/)
>
> should produce an Array with the individual letters in the string.
> That involves a concept about regexps called zero-width positive
> lookahead (see _http://www.regular-expressions.info/lookar...
> (http://www.regular-expressions.info/looka...) ).
>
> Please let us all know if you still encounter problems.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Axel

Zero width positive lookahead is a little overkill, split(//) works
just as well, AFAIK