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

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

James Edward Gray II