# Ruby string parsing

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/ruby-string-parsing/11151>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [April 2, 2007, 4:11pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/ruby-string-parsing/11151 "2007-04-02T16:11:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jason\_Roelofs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@Jason\_Roelofs](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Jason_Roelofs)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 4:11pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/ruby-string-parsing/11151/1 "2007-04-02T16:11:11Z")

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array = string.split(‘,’)

or to make sure there’s no extra white space (I think)

array = string.split(‘,\s\*’)

Please go read:

[http://www.rubycentral.com/book/](http://www.rubycentral.com/book/)

and check out

[http://ruby-doc.org/core](http://ruby-doc.org/core)

Jason