NAME¶

Strings::fields - Split a string into fields

SYNOPSIS¶

[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.

DESCRIPTION¶

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.

AUTHORS¶

Kaya standard library by Edwin Brady, Chris Morris and others (kaya@kayalang.org). 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.

RELATED¶

Regex.split (3kaya)