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Stuart Clarke
Hi all,
I am having trouble working out some logic for my problem. I basically
have a long string (320 characters) and I want to split into smaller
strings no longer than 50 characters in length. At present I have the
following regex:
data = "big long string"
puts data.scan(/{50}/)
This nicely breaks up the string however there are a few problems with
it, including:
It only outputs 50 character chunks, therefore when it gets to the end
and only 20 characters remain it misses them off the output (it outputs
6 50 characters strings and ignores the remaining 20)
This regex also splits up words, which is something I don't want. I want
a script to count to 50 and when it gets there, go backwards to find
some white space and split it at that point, therefore not breaking up a
word. As a result a number of sub strings of various sizes will be
created all less than 50 chars.
I hope this makes sense, to summarise I want to break up a string into a
max of 50 characters without breaking up words.
Thanks in advance
Stuart
I am having trouble working out some logic for my problem. I basically
have a long string (320 characters) and I want to split into smaller
strings no longer than 50 characters in length. At present I have the
following regex:
data = "big long string"
puts data.scan(/{50}/)
This nicely breaks up the string however there are a few problems with
it, including:
It only outputs 50 character chunks, therefore when it gets to the end
and only 20 characters remain it misses them off the output (it outputs
6 50 characters strings and ignores the remaining 20)
This regex also splits up words, which is something I don't want. I want
a script to count to 50 and when it gets there, go backwards to find
some white space and split it at that point, therefore not breaking up a
word. As a result a number of sub strings of various sizes will be
created all less than 50 chars.
I hope this makes sense, to summarise I want to break up a string into a
max of 50 characters without breaking up words.
Thanks in advance
Stuart