On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 22:59 -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On 2008 Jul 10, at 22:49, Jonathan Cast wrote:
On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 19:40 -0700, Eric Torreborre wrote:
Hi,
Neil's version of split is has the same kind of behavior than Java's, Ruby's, Python's
Add perl to that list, as well.
Perl's is configurable: if the regexp includes a capture, the captured part of each separator will be included in the returned list. Thus split(/(,)/, @foo) will capture the commas between the list items.
I got caught out in a detail of perl's semantics. This is extremely embarrassing. In my defense, I can only (weakly) point out that both versions proposed thus far have type String -> String -> [String] (or a generalization thereof) and that perl's behavior when passed a regular string (i.e., a return value of quotemeta) does match Neil's. jcc