NAME

       Strings::fields - Split a string into fields

SYNOPSIS

       [String] fields( String input, [Char] delimiters, [Char] escape )

ARGUMENTS

       input The input string

       delimiters A list of characters that are treated as delimiters

       escape  Characters  that escape the string - i.e. delimiters between two escape characters
       are treated as literal characters.

DESCRIPTION

       This function splits a string into fields. For example, to split a CSV file, you could use
       fields(input,[',','\n'],['"']);
        This will treat commas and newlines as field separators, except within quoted strings.

AUTHORS

       Kaya  standard  library  by  Edwin Brady, Chris Morris and others (kaya@kayalang.org). For
       further information see http://kayalang.org/

LICENSE

       The Kaya standard library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
       the  terms  of the GNU Lesser General Public License (version 2.1 or any later version) as
       published by the Free Software Foundation.

RELATED

       Regex.split (3kaya)