Splitting a paragraph into words and spaces

Rails
1

I’m using this:

<% words = article.content.split(/ /) %>
<%= words[0…20] %>

to (ostensibly) split a paragraph into component words, with spaces in
between, then print to html only the first 20 items, words and spaces. I
got this (split(/ /)) from the online pickaxe book at
http://rubycentral.com/book/ref_c_string.html#String.split . The problem
is, the resulting array seems to contain no spaces, only words, and
what’s being printed to html is onehugewordthatlookslikethis.

Am I doing something wrong?

2

try this…

<% words = article.content.split(/ /) %>
<%= words[0…20].join ’ ’ %>

This will join the first 20 elements with spaces in between. When you
split,
it removes the text which you split on.

mark

3

You are THE MAN!!!
Works perfectly. Thanks.

Mark Van H. wrote:

try this…

<% words = article.content.split(/ /) %>
<%= words[0…20].join ’ ’ %>

This will join the first 20 elements with spaces in between. When you
split,
it removes the text which you split on.

mark