ruby split string at index code example

Example 1: split ruby

# no number splits on single whitespace
myArray = "hello hello".split 

# / / is one white space 
# limit value is 2 
myArray = "hello hello".split(/ /, 2) 

# -1 means no limit to the number of fields returned, 
myArray = "hello hello".split('o', -1)

Example 2: how to split string into characters ruby

string = "hey there"
string.chars #=> ["h", "e", "y", " ", "t", "h", "e", "r", "e"]
#OR
string.split("")