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Created September 10, 2015 22:24
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Split and extract pieces of a string into an array, only leaving what you need
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split_and_replace_to_array.rb
# I have the following string and needed to extract just the values from it.
# Thus removing the key and =/& symbols and return the values in an array
#
# I did it like so.
str = "str1=lolf839Di8FjliWBfcceBab8PvD9AuqY1b7ISjVL43XeOh7yaUA&str2=OAW8mb1x7lEl0s5OUCz7vdZtMVzYXI9j8IYkxhKfCbQ"
str.split('&').each{|b| b.gsub!(/.*?=(?=)/im, "")}
# > ["lolf839Di8FjliWBfcceBab8PvD9AuqY1b7ISjVL43XeOh7yaUA", "OAW8mb1x7lEl0s5OUCz7vdZtMVzYXI9j8IYkxhKfCbQ"]
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