Ruby string parsing

Rails
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I’m fairly new to Ruby and I’ve got a question concerning string
parsing. If I want to take a comma-delimited string of words and put
each word into an array, how would I do it?

Example:
string = “one, two, three, four”

Thanks!

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At 5:55 PM +0200 4/2/07, Nick wrote:

I’m fairly new to Ruby and I’ve got a question concerning string
parsing. If I want to take a comma-delimited string of words and
put each word into an array, how would I do it?

Example:
string = “one, two, three, four”

string.split(/,\s*/)
=> [“one”, “two”, “three”, “four”]

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array = string.split(‘,’)

or to make sure there’s no extra white space (I think)

array = string.split(‘,\s*’)

Please go read:

http://www.rubycentral.com/book/

and check out

http://ruby-doc.org/core

Jason