From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rationale for split-string?
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 00:14:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E196jkF-0005dy-00@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200304171744.h3HHiJCx009215@rum.cs.yale.edu> (monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu)
RS> I know of no reason to want them to be different.
Fantastic! Steve Turnbull is a thorough guy, so I'm sure that he will
send you a patch so you can fix GNU/Emacs' split-string.
First we need to figure out what is the right behavior for that
function. People are already discussing the question...
> (split-string ",,data,," ",")
> => ("" "data" "")
Is that wrong? If so, what result do you think is right?
("" "" "data" "" "") could be argued for, but I am not sure
it is better.
A gross hack is to test if the last char of the regexp is ?+
and if so get rid of empty strings at start and end.
It should take care of 99% of the cases.
That is a kludge. Whatever we do, it should not be that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-19 4:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-17 9:06 Rationale for split-string? Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-04-17 11:30 ` Stefan Reichör
2003-04-18 1:54 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-18 2:59 ` Steve Youngs
2003-04-17 17:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-17 19:32 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-04-18 11:50 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-04-18 14:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-19 8:18 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-04-19 13:35 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-19 4:14 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2003-04-19 8:55 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-04-21 0:59 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-21 1:55 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-04-21 10:58 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-04-21 21:11 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-04-21 23:43 ` Miles Bader
2003-04-22 3:26 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-04-22 4:09 ` Jerry James
2003-04-22 8:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-04-22 13:22 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-04-22 14:38 ` Jerry James
2003-04-22 12:56 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-04-22 14:56 ` Jerry James
2003-04-22 15:27 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-04-22 13:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-04-22 13:39 ` Miles Bader
2003-04-22 13:51 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-04-22 16:26 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-04-23 1:00 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-23 4:09 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-04-24 23:12 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-20 1:55 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-05-22 15:00 ` Kai Großjohann
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2003-05-20 3:11 Bill Wohler
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