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

You probably mistyped a few things. From what I gather, you start with a string such as:

string = "test1, test2, test3, test4, test5"

Then you want to split it to keep only the significant substrings:

array = string.split(/, /)

And in the end you only need all the elements excluding the first one:

# We extract and remove the first element from array
first_element = array.shift

# Now array contains the expected result, you can check it with
puts array.inspect

Did that answer your question ?

Answer 2

Since you've got an array, what you really want is Array#slice, not split.

rest = ex.slice(1 .. -1)
# or
rest = ex[1 .. -1]

Answer 3

Try this:

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

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