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textutil::split

Procedures to split texts






package require Tcl 8.2


package require textutil::split ?0.8?


::textutil::split::splitn string ?len?


::textutil::split::splitx string ?regexp?










The package textutil::split provides commands that split
    strings by size and arbitrary regular expressions.


The complete set of procedures is described below.



  
::textutil::split::splitn string ?len?

  
This command splits the given string into chunks of len
      characters and returns a list containing these chunks. The argument
      len defaults to 1 if none is specified. A negative length is
      not allowed and will cause the command to throw an error. Providing an
      empty string as input is allowed, the command will then return an empty
      list. If the length of the string is not an entire multiple of the
      chunk length, then the last chunk in the generated list will be shorter
      than len.

  
::textutil::split::splitx string ?regexp?

  
This command splits the string and return a list. The string is
      split according to the regular expression regexp instead of a
      simple list of chars. Note: When parentheses are used in the
      regexp, i.e. regex capture groups, then these groups will be added
      into the result list as additional elements. If the string is empty
      the result is the empty list, like for split. If regexp is
      empty the string is split at every character, like split
      does. The regular expression regexp defaults to "[\\t
      \\r\\n]+".








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regexp(3tcl), split(3tcl), string(3tcl)






regular expression, split, string






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