Syntax

	$input.split(separator: ",", trim: true)

Description

Splits an input string into a list of strings using a given separator. All occurrences of the separator string are searched for in the input string and the character strings between the separators are returned as a list.

Parameters

String name	Type	Type Description	Mandatory	Default
`input`	Character string	The character string to be split	Yes
`separator`	String/regular expression	The separator to be used to split the input string.	no	`","`
`trim`	Truth value	Whether to remove spaces at the beginning and end of the result entries.	no	`true`

Return value

Type: List of character strings

The character strings between the separators found in the input string.

Examples

Standard separator

	"a, b, c".split()

Output: ["a", "b", "c"]

The list of comma-separated words from the input.

With separator

	"Hello world and hello moon!".split(" ")

Output: ["Hello", "world", "and", "hello", "moon!"]

The space-separated words from the input.

With regular expression

	"a --- b - c -- d".split(regex("-+"))

Output: ["a", "b", "c", "d"]

The words in the input separated by any number of minus signs.

Without trimming

	"a, b, c".split(trim:false)

Output: ["a", " b", " c"]

Exactly the character strings between the separators. There is a space before each of the characters b and c.