How to split a string in Ruby and get all items except the first one?

Question

String is ex="test1, test2, test3, test4, test5"

when I use

ex.split(",").first 

it returns

"test1" 

Now I want to get the remaining items, i.e. `"test2, test3, test4, test5". If I use

ex.split(",").last 

it returns only

"test5" 

How to get all the remaining items skipping first one?

Answer 1

Try this:

first, *rest = ex.split(/, /) 

Now first will be the first value, rest will be the rest of the array.