Rails - Aug 2006 - scan syntax question

I was going through the syntax on this site: 
http://www.rubycentral.com/ref/ref_c_string.html

trying to figure out how to parse my tags.  Basically I have a tags 
field that returns a value a = ''new york'' table

I want to parse it so that I grab the new york and the table but the 
only way I know to do it is with scan such as: <%a=st.scan(/\w+/)%> 
which returns three values: new, york, and table.

Can somebody help me with the proper syntax for my scan statement?

Thanks..

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