How to split a string in Ruby and get all items except the first one?

Question

String is ex=\"test1, test2, test3, test4, test5\"

when I use

ex.split(\",\").first

it returns

\"test1\"
         


        

Answer 1

Try this:

first, *rest = ex.split(/, /)

Now first will be the first value, rest will be the rest of the array.