Split a string by whitespace but retain
- Ruby

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I have a ruby file that reads files and splits the text into an array using `split(' ')`. The problem is that these text files contain newline characters, and I would like to retain those newline characters. For example, if I run the following code ``` "Lorem ipsum
dolor sit amet".split(' ') ``` I get the output of ``` ["Lorem", "ipsum", "dolor", "sit", "amet"] ``` Why does split remove the newline character? How can i retain `
` in my array?

Accepted Answer

Michael Berkowski's comment on your question is correct.

If you want to work around this case, use a regular expression:

```
"Lorem ipsum
dolor sit amet".split(/ /)
#=> ["Lorem", "ipsum
dolor", "sit", "amet"] 
```

Split a string by whitespace but retain \n - Ruby

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