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class String
  def split_thingie(words = 10)
    self.split(" ")[0..words-1]
  end
end

puts "hello there. This is just a test of the split thingie. It should work".split_thingie.inspect
# => ["hello", "there.", "This", "is", "just", "a", "test", "of", "the", "split"]