On May 7, 4:12 pm, akbarhome <akbarh... / gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 7, 2:39 pm, Nanyang Zhan <s... / hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Don't get me wrong, because I just want to know how to separate English
> > words from a string with ruby.
> > There are strings (UTF-8 encoded) to record people's name,
> > like:
>
> > ëñ¥¥ì¢¥±¥Ä¥­ê¾Îë­ìëû¥· Morgan Freeman
> > ÉÛ»Û°ÒÍø»Û Bruce Willis
> > Íû¾®ÌÀ Lee xiao ming
> > these strings containing Chinese name(without space between characters),
> > separated by a space, following an English name
>
> > or
> > Frank Darabont
> > Just an English name.
>
> > Would you give me an idea how to separate these Chinese characters(if
> > any)?
>
> > --
> > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>  a = File.open('a.txt')
>  a.each {|x| puts x.split(' ', 2) }
> Output:
> ëñ¥¥ì¢¥±¥Ä¥­ê¾Îë­ìëû¥·
> Morgan Freeman
> ÉÛ»Û°ÒÍø»Û
> Bruce Willis
> Íû¾®ÌÀ
> Lee xiao ming

Sorry. Fixed version:
a.each {|x|
   if x[0].to_i > 128 then
     puts x.split(' ', 2)
   else
     puts x
    end
}

This code is quick and dirty.