From p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk  Sat Dec 18 20:28:51 1999
From: p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA)
Date: 18 Dec 1999 21:28:51 +0100
Subject: strsplit does not conform to documentation (PR#379)
In-Reply-To: cberry@tajo.ucsd.edu's message of "Sat, 18 Dec 1999 03:47:04 +0100 (MET)"
References: <199912180247.DAA07122@pubhealth.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <x2zov8ngcc.fsf@blueberry.kubism.ku.dk>

cberry@tajo.ucsd.edu writes:

> Description:
> 
>      Split the Strings in `x' into substrings according to
>      the presence of substring `split' within them.
> 

> Apparently, it will 
> 
> Split the Strings in `x' into substrings according to the presence of
> ANY CHARACTER FOUND IN substring `split'.
> 
> -------------------
> 
> Was this intended? I expected, as the documentation implies that the
> result from above would be:
> 
> "acbdefg"   "higkilmnSpPqrst"

Yes it was intended. Strsplit interfaces to the strtok() C routine,

       char *strtok(char *s, const char *delim);

DESCRIPTION
       A `token' is a nonempty string of characters not occurring
       in the string delim, followed by  \0  or  by  a  character
       occurring in delim.

and `split' gets passed as `delim'. The documentation is bad, though. 

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strsplit does not conform to documentation (PR#379)
Peter Dalgaard BSA