Adding split/split' to Data.List, and redefining words/lines with it; also, adding replace/replaceBy

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Jul 10, at 22:49, Jonathan Cast wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 19:40 -0700, Eric Torreborre wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Neil's version of split is has the same kind of behavior than Java's,
>> Ruby's, Python's
>
> Add perl to that list, as well.


Perl's is configurable:  if the regexp includes a capture, the  
captured part of each separator will be included in the returned  
list.  Thus split(/(,)/, @foo) will capture the commas between the  
list items.

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