separateRegexp(String,ZZ,String) -- separate a string into pieces, with separators determined by a regular expression

Synopsis

• Usage:

  separateRegexp(sep,n,str)

• Function: separateRegexp
• Inputs:

  • sep, a string, a regular expression
  • n, an integer
  • str, a string, a string to be separated
• Outputs:

  • a list of substrings consecutively extracted from str, with separators recognized by the n-th parenthesized subexpression ofsep

Description

i1 : separateRegexp("f(-)", 1, "asdf-qwer-dfadf")

o1 = {asdf, qwer-dfadf}

o1 : List