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 use the numeric argument, but IMO it's a bit tricky since (IMO) it's not quite consistent with what I'd expect, and AFAICT you'd want to trim the last null field:

jruby-1.6.7 :020 > "aaaa\nbbbb\n\n".split(/\n/, -1)[0..-2]
 => ["aaaa", "bbbb", ""]