From 46439007cf417cbd9ac8049bb4122c890097a0fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Charles.Forsyth" Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 20:52:35 +0000 Subject: 20060303-partial --- man/2/sys-tokenize | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+) create mode 100644 man/2/sys-tokenize (limited to 'man/2/sys-tokenize') diff --git a/man/2/sys-tokenize b/man/2/sys-tokenize new file mode 100644 index 00000000..38c04598 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/2/sys-tokenize @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +.TH SYS-TOKENIZE 2 +.SH NAME +tokenize \- split string into words +.SH SYNOPSIS +.EX +include "sys.m"; +sys := load Sys Sys->PATH; + +tokenize: fn(s, delim: string): (int, list of string); +.EE +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B Tokenize +breaks +.I s +into words separated by characters in +.IR delim . +The returned tuple holds the number of words +and an ordered list of those words (whose +.B hd +gives the leftmost word from +.IR s ). +.PP +Words are delimited by the maximal sequences of any +character from the +.I delim +string. +.B Tokenize +skips delimiter characters at the beginning and end of +.IR s , +so each element in the returned list has non-zero length. +.PP +If +.I s +is +.B nil +or contains no words, +.B tokenize +returns a count of zero and a +.B nil +list. +.PP +.I Delim +may be +.B nil +or the empty string, specifying no delimiter characters. +The resulting word list will be +.B nil +(if +.I s +is +.B nil +or the empty string) +or a single-item list with a copy of +.IR s . +.SH SEE ALSO +.IR sys-intro (2) -- cgit v1.2.3