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From: "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com>
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Subject: Re: String Processing in JavaScript
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Evertjan said

>>     Because your main split is at 2-char '\n' set, I guess you'd have
>>     to use a regex expression to make the split.
>
> Nothing wrong with that:
>
> var t = t.split(/\n/);
>
> However, you guess wrong, this works just fine:
>
> var t = t.split('\n');
>
> And, a 2 character boundery split() does not need regex in general:
>
> var t = t.split('ab');


Evertjan:

    I never knew that one could split on a 2-char sequence.

Thank you for more enlightenment !

-Mel