[racket-dev] `string-split'

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 14:33, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:

> I agree with this: we should add `string-split', the one-argument case
> should be as Eli wrote,


About this I'm not sure, as one cannot reproduce this behavior by providing
an argument (or it could make the difference between string-as-not-regexps
and regexps? Wouldn't this be different from other places?).
It would then appear somewhat magical. To me the " " default splitter seems
more intuitive.

Laurent


> and the two-argument case should be as Laurent
> wrote. (Probably the optional second argument should be string-or-#f,
> where #f means to use #px"\\s+".)
>
> At Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:30:31 +0200, Laurent wrote:
> >  (define (string-split str [sep #px"\\s+"])
> > >    (remove* '("") (regexp-split sep str)))
> > >
> >
> > Nearly, I meant something more like this:
> >
> > (define (string-split str [splitter " "])
> >   (regexp-split (regexp-quote splitter) str))
> >
> > No regexp from the user POV, and much easier to use with little
> knowledge.
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