How do I extract strings from a string?

Question

I have a long string, consisting of multiple sentences, of various length, divided by a "-".

I want to iterate over the string and extract everything between the -'s, preferably to an array.

From another thread I found something that gets me pretty close, but not all the way:

longString.scan( /-([^-]*)-/)

Needless to say, I am new to Ruby, and especially to RegEx.

Andrew Marshall · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-10 21:15:06Z

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What's wrong with using String#split?

longString.split('-')

answered Feb 10, 2012 at 21:15

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J. Holmes · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-10 21:14:48Z

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Why not just use string.split()?

longString.split('-');

answered Feb 10, 2012 at 21:14

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