Syntax

	$input.split(separator: ",", trim: true, limit: 0)

Description

Splits an input string into a list of strings using a given separator. Every occurrence of the separator string is 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
limit	Integer	Determines the maximum number of elements in the result. At 0, the string is split as many times as possible.	no	0

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.

With limit

	"a, b, c".split(limit:1)

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

The character string is only separated once.