with builtins; # Non capturing regex returns empty lists assert split "foobar" "foobar" == ["" [] ""]; assert split "fo*" "f" == ["" [] ""]; assert split "fo+" "f" == ["f"]; assert split "fo*" "fo" == ["" [] ""]; assert split "fo*" "foo" == ["" [] ""]; assert split "fo+" "foo" == ["" [] ""]; assert split "fo{1,2}" "foo" == ["" [] ""]; assert split "fo{1,2}" "fooo" == ["" [] "o"]; assert split "fo*" "foobar" == ["" [] "bar"]; # Capturing regex returns a list of sub-matches assert split "(fo*)" "f" == ["" ["f"] ""]; assert split "(fo+)" "f" == ["f"]; assert split "(fo*)" "fo" == ["" ["fo"] ""]; assert split "(f)(o*)" "f" == ["" ["f" ""] ""]; assert split "(f)(o*)" "foo" == ["" ["f" "oo"] ""]; assert split "(fo+)" "foo" == ["" ["foo"] ""]; assert split "(fo{1,2})" "foo" == ["" ["foo"] ""]; assert split "(fo{1,2})" "fooo" == ["" ["foo"] "o"]; assert split "(fo*)" "foobar" == ["" ["foo"] "bar"]; # Matches are greedy. assert split "(o+)" "oooofoooo" == ["" ["oooo"] "f" ["oooo"] ""]; # Matches multiple times. assert split "(b)" "foobarbaz" == ["foo" ["b"] "ar" ["b"] "az"]; # Split large strings containing newlines. null are inserted when a # pattern within the current did not match anything. assert split "[[:space:]]+|([',.!?])" '' Nix Rocks! That's why I use it. '' == [ "Nix" [ null ] "Rocks" ["!"] "" [ null ] "That" ["'"] "s" [ null ] "why" [ null ] "I" [ null ] "use" [ null ] "it" ["."] "" [ null ] "" ]; # Documentation examples assert split "(a)b" "abc" == [ "" [ "a" ] "c" ]; assert split "([ac])" "abc" == [ "" [ "a" ] "b" [ "c" ] "" ]; assert split "(a)|(c)" "abc" == [ "" [ "a" null ] "b" [ null "c" ] "" ]; assert split "([[:upper:]]+)" " FOO " == [ " " [ "FOO" ] " " ]; true