Ruby string split on more than one character

Question

I have a string, say "Hello_World I am Learning,Ruby". I would like to split this string into each distinct word, what's the best way?

Thanks! C.

Answer 1

You could use \W for any non-word character:

"Hello_World I am Learning,Ruby".split /[\W_]/
=> ["Hello", "World", "I", "am", "Learning", "Ruby"]

"Hello_World I am Learning,   Ruby".split /[\W_]+/
=> ["Hello", "World", "I", "am", "Learning", "Ruby"]

Answer 2

You can use String.split with a regex pattern as the parameter. Like this:

"Hello_World I am Learning,Ruby".split /[ _,.!?]/
=> ["Hello", "World", "I", "am", "Learning", "Ruby"]