Chop a string in Ruby into fixed length string ignoring (not considering/regardless) new line or space characters

Question

I have a string containing many new line and spaces. I need to split it into fixed length sub strings. E.g

a = \"This is some\\nText\\nThis is some text\"
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Answer 1

"This is some\nText\nThis is some text".scan(/.{1,17}/m)
# => ["This is some\nText", "\nThis is some tex", "t"]