On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Joel Pearson <[email protected]> wrote:
> The quick way to do that would be:
>
> "tes<tr>ubyrails  <[email protected]>".split(" <").each do |el| puts
> el[0..-2] end
>
> If you wanted something a bit more flexible I recommend regex.

Like

irb(main):001:0> s = 'tes<tr>ubyrails  <[email protected]>'
irb(main):002:0> if %r{\A(.*?)\s+(<.*?>)\z} =~ s then front=$1;
rear=$2; p front, rear; end
"tes<tr>ubyrails"
"<[email protected]>"
=> ["tes<tr>ubyrails", "<[email protected]>"]

> Do you have more examples, or is this static data you're using?

That would certainly be helpful.

Kind regards

robert

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