Difference between revisions of "Split string"
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imported>PhilmASTErpLus (Discovery: split_string uses regular expressions! See http://kolmafia.us/showthread.php?t=2473) |
imported>Heeheehee m (Technicality -- "maps" should've been used here. Maps are different from arrays in that they are of variable length. Gogo correctness!) |
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Revision as of 15:27, 9 July 2010
needs(code_samples);
Function Syntax
string [int] split_string(string source )
string [int] split_string(string source ,string delimiter )
- source is the string to split
- delimiter is the (optional) regular expression to split with
Returns an array of your source, split by either delimiter or by line-breaks if not supplied.
Special
This function technically returns an array, not a map. The information in both is accessed in the same way. However, you cannot add new key-value pairs to an array (it's length is static once set).