string.split method in ruby behaves funny to me

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Published on 2010-04-19T12:23:36Z Indexed on 2010/04/19 12:33 UTC
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txt = "1aaa5"

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txt.split("a") produces [1, "", "", 5] in ruby 1.9. Anyone can explain why? Particularly, why not [1, 5]? Thanks.

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