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author | stomar <stomar@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e> | 2017-06-02 21:29:27 +0000 |
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committer | stomar <stomar@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e> | 2017-06-02 21:29:27 +0000 |
commit | 038c2e52d891acafeff0710aed8c95a10cc5b688 (patch) | |
tree | 3c2f95a534ef62c99428d0740b80c7e8e46ff59e /string.c | |
parent | cd4cbc7bca66abead5945adce21c1758e923e00a (diff) | |
download | ruby-038c2e52d891acafeff0710aed8c95a10cc5b688.tar.gz |
string.c: docs for String#split
* string.c: [DOC] clarify docs for String#split when called
with limit and capture groups.
Reported by Cichol Tsai. [ruby-core:81505] [Bug #13621]
git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@59002 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e
Diffstat (limited to 'string.c')
-rw-r--r-- | string.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -7285,7 +7285,7 @@ static const char isspacetable[256] = { /* * call-seq: - * str.split(pattern=nil, [limit]) -> anArray + * str.split(pattern=nil, [limit]) -> an_array * * Divides <i>str</i> into substrings based on a delimiter, returning an array * of these substrings. @@ -7305,9 +7305,11 @@ static const char isspacetable[256] = { * split on whitespace as if ' ' were specified. * * If the <i>limit</i> parameter is omitted, trailing null fields are - * suppressed. If <i>limit</i> is a positive number, at most that number of - * fields will be returned (if <i>limit</i> is <code>1</code>, the entire - * string is returned as the only entry in an array). If negative, there is no + * suppressed. If <i>limit</i> is a positive number, at most that number + * of split substrings will be returned (captured groups will be returned + * as well, but are not counted towards the limit). + * If <i>limit</i> is <code>1</code>, the entire + * string is returned as the only entry in an array. If negative, there is no * limit to the number of fields returned, and trailing null fields are not * suppressed. * @@ -7327,6 +7329,8 @@ static const char isspacetable[256] = { * "1,2,,3,4,,".split(',', 4) #=> ["1", "2", "", "3,4,,"] * "1,2,,3,4,,".split(',', -4) #=> ["1", "2", "", "3", "4", "", ""] * + * "1:2:3".split(/(:)()()/, 2) #=> ["1", ":", "", "", "2:3"] + * * "".split(',', -1) #=> [] */ |