Alternative join and split in Ruby

Join

          >> %w(tic tac toe) * "-" 
          => "tic-tac-toe"

Split

          >> "tic-tac-toe" / "-" 
          => ["tic", "tac", "toe"]

Unfortunately, for split you’ll need this of course:

          class String
            alias / :split
          end

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Comments

Karl on 2008-07-10

Just my opinion here, but I don’t like either of those conventions. To me they are not clear. If someone else was picking up my code, they might find those a bit confusing. The split nomenclature is farily common among several languages.

But I will give you that they are concise.