On 8/2/2010 5:53 PM, samwyse wrote:
On Aug 2, 12:34 pm, John Nagle<na...@animats.com> wrote:
The regular expression "split" behaves slightly differently than string
split:
I'm going to argue that it's the string split that's behaving oddly.
I tend to agree.
It doesn't seem to be possible to get the same semantics with
any regular expression split. The default "split" has a special
case for head and tail whitespace, and there's no way to express
that with a regular expression split. Applying "strip" first
will work, of course. The documentation should reflect
that.
John Nagle
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