You could do it by using the word boundary regexp operator.

(ns foo.bar
  (:use [clojure.contrib.string :only [split]]))

(defn split* [s]
  (drop 1 (split #"\b" s)))

(split* "ab c  de")

;; ("ab" " " "c" "  " "de")

-Drew



On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:24, joshua-choi <rbysam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to know if there's a standard function similar to
> clojure.contrib.string/split that includes the characters between the
> spitted string, or if there isn't one, how I might write one. In other
> words, I'd like a function split* such that (split* #"\s+" "ab c  de")
> returns ("ab" " " "c" "  " "de").
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