split

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Splits the string string into substrings delimited by delimiter. To limit the split to a certain number of pieces, use the limit parameter.

Parameters

string The string to split.
delimiter The string that separates one element from the next.
limit (optional) The maximum number of substrings; no limit by default.

Return

parts An array containing the substrings found.

TypeScript

In JavaScript, s.split(separator) splits like split in LeekScript, with two differences. Trailing empty pieces are kept: "a,b,,".split(",") is ["a", "b", "", ""], while LeekScript drops them and gives ["a", "b"]. And the second argument, although it is a maximum number of pieces in both languages, throws away the end of the string in JavaScript: "a,b,c".split(",", 2) is ["a", "b"] in JavaScript and ["a", "b,c"] in LeekScript, where the rest is kept in the last piece.

Python

In Python, s.split(separator) raises a ValueError (empty separator) on an empty separator, where split in LeekScript then splits character by character — for that, write list(s). Three other differences:

trailing empty pieces are kept: "a,b,,".split(",") is ["a", "b", "", ""], while LeekScript drops them;
without an argument, s.split() splits on runs of whitespace and ignores leading and trailing whitespace: " a b ".split() is ["a", "b"];
the second argument is a maximum number of splits, not of pieces: "a,b,c".split(",", 1) is ["a", "b,c"].

Examples

split("456-789-123", "-") // ["456", "789", "123"] split("Hello", "") // ["H", "e", "l", "l", "o"] split("Hello", "zzz") // ["Hello"] split("456-789-123", "-", 2) // ["456", "789-123"]