Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Re: String.nsplit empty string

[Richard J. <ri...@an...>]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 09:55:36PM +0100, Bardur Arantsson wrote:
> Richard Jones wrote:
> > Currently, String.nsplit "" _ returns a single element list:
> > 
> > $ ocaml -I +extlib
> >         Objective Caml version 3.08.3
> > 
> > # #load "unix.cma";;
> > # #load "extLib.cma";;
> > # open ExtString;;
> > # String.nsplit "" ",";;
> > - : string list = [""]
> > # String.nsplit "execute" ",";;
> > - : string list = ["execute"]
> > 
> > I would argue, however, that it'd be much better if it acted like
> > Perl's split and this was special-cased to return a zero-length list:
> > 
> 
> I agree. It probably more useful in general.

Anyone else have any opinion on this?  I would really like to change
the current implementation.

Rich.

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