Re: Record-separator is a regular expression

On Nov 29, 2005, at 7:08 AM, James Edward Gray II wrote:
On Nov 29, 2005, at 7:51 AM, Gavin Kistner wrote:
On Nov 29, 2005, at 6:22 AM, William James wrote: 
Unlike Gawk and Mawk, Ruby won't accept a regular expression as a
record-separator.

p data.split( /-+| +|\n/ )
#=> ["name", "age", "size", "Gavin", "32", "33"]

William is talking about the separator used by IO objects, $/. 

Ah...thanks :)


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