split question

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-04-28, alexk <alexk at mailinator.com> wrote:
> I've a simple question. Why the following:
>
> words = "123#@$#$@^%[wordA] wordB#@$".split('~`!@#$%^&*()_+-=[]{},./')
>
> doesn't work?

But it does work.  Your input string (the one on the left) does
not contain the delimiter string you're passing to the split()
method.  The argument to split() is a delimiter string not a
set of delimter characters.

> The length of the result vector is 1.

Yup :)

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