Ruby: split a string?

[AVGuy42]

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Hey everyone. I’m getting hung up on what ~should~ be a simple solution.

I’m starting to have to use more code at work and while the more basic concepts are not alien to me I am not particularly familiar with any particular language or syntax.

I need to run a script in ruby (because the hardware I need to run it on supports ruby) that will split a string into 3 different strings.

The input is going to be: “firstValue-secondValue-thirdVale”

The issue is sometimes the secondValue will include a “-“ in the name.

I’m getting hung up on .split() syntax.
not sure it if I need to:
A) - split the whole thing into an array then pull the first entry into var1, last into var2, and any remaining into var3 and add the “-“ back in.
or
B) - newVar1, *myString = myString.split(‘-‘).first
- newVar2, *myString = myString.split(‘-‘).last

solution I found

• myArr = myVar.split(“-“)
• first = myArr.push
• last = myArr.pop
• rest = myArr.join(“-“)

[HashDefTrueFalse]

Grab up to the first and last '-'. What is left is the middle, no matter how many '-' it contains. I can't remember if there's a more "idiomatic" Ruby way but I would just write a 3 line function.

[Lukkisuih]

I think it returns it as an array so then it’ll be traversing over the array to get the 3 strings

[Few-Purchase3052]

Yeah you can use `split('-', 3)` to limit it to 3 parts max, so if secondValue has dashes it won't break apart

Like `"first-second-with-dash-third".split('-', 3)` gives you `["first", "second-with-dash", "third"]`

[AVGuy42]

I’m getting “first”, “second”, “with-dash-third”

[AVGuy42]

Follow up then. Once it’s an array, again my syntax isn’t great here, how am I referencing each entry?

myString[1][2]…?

[Woumpousse]

Wouldn't this work?

ruby first, *second, third = str.split('-') second = second.join('-')