Craig Demyanovich wrote:
> I thought String#split with a regex might do it, but I'm not sure why it
> returns an array with empty strings in it. So I tried String#scan. It 
> works,

Don't quote me on this, but I think that would be because String#split 
had a regex to define the character/group of characters that you're 
interested in, so if you're defining the split as any old 8 characters 
then that doesn't leave an awful lot!
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