How to split string across new lines and keep blank lines?

Question

Given the ruby code:

\"aaaa\\nbbbb\\n\\n\".split(/\\n/)

This outputs:

[\"aaaa\", \"bbbb\"] 

I would like the

Answer 1

You can supply a negative argument for the second parameter of split to avoid stripping trailing empty strings;

"aaaa\nbbbb\n\n".split(/\n/, -1)

Note that this will give you one extra empty string compared to what you want.