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Re: "less for more" - a little story about String.split

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From	Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at>
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Subject	Re: "less for more" - a little story about String.split
Date	Sat, 28 Jul 2018 13:04:07 -0000 (UTC)
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Scott <nobody@example.org> wrote:
> The implied exception seems to be that the above does not apply to a
> string that contains no matching delimiters, which is simply returned
> as-is, even if it's empty.

That's essentially the gist of my story.

Documentation specifies that for a limit of 0, trailing empty strings are
discarded from result, but in implementation this is restricted to cases
where the pattern matches at least once.

The behaviour I'd really prefer would be if at least one (possibly empty)
element would be always retained - also in the case where the delimiter
does have a match.

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"less for more" - a little story about String.split Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2018-07-27 06:33 +0000
  Re: "less for more" - a little story about String.split nobody@example.org (Scott) - 2018-07-28 01:16 +0000
    Re: "less for more" - a little story about String.split Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2018-07-28 13:04 +0000

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