explode

  • We can split a string by a delimiting string in Ruby using String#split. Ruby uses this same method to perform regular expression based splits. See preg_match for examples.

    PHP

    $result = explode("; ", "derek@example.com; mike@example.com");
var_export($result);
// => array(0 => 'derek@example.com', 1 => 'mike@example.com')

    Ruby

    p "derek@example.com; mike@example.com".split("; ")
# => ["derek@example.com", "mike@example.com"]

    see also

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