Strings.fields(3kaya)

Strings.fields3kaya

Split a string into fields

Usage

[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.

Overview

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.

Releases

4 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 5.0
  2. 6.0
  3. 7
  4. 8

Authors

Kaya standard library by Edwin Brady, Chris Morris and others ([email protected]). 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.

From kaya 0.4.4-6.2 in Debian 8 (Jessie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.