On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Andrea Giammarchi < [email protected]> wrote:
> >also, this is the same: `myString.split(/[ -/+]/)` Yes, that's true, not sure how that works for multi character delimiters. > maybe it's better to explain those users that knowing RegExp might bring benefits for their purpose (coding) ? This is not the first or last thing in a language that is intended to make life easier for users who are not highly trained professionals. I agree that the added value is not huge here, but implementation is pretty inexpensive and I can see people use this. On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Andrea Giammarchi < [email protected]> wrote: > also, this is the same: > > `myString.split(/[ -/+]/)` > > maybe it's better to explain those users that knowing RegExp might bring > benefits for their purpose (coding) ? > > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Andrea Giammarchi < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I stopped here >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 5:54 AM, Benjamin (Inglor) Gruenbaum < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> ``` >>> myString.split(/ |-|\/|\+/g); // this is no fun to read >>> >>> myString.split(" ","-","/","+"); // this is easier >>> myString.split([" ","-","/","+"]); // this is also easier. >>> >>> ``` >>> >> >> >> easier for who ? >> >> All I was doing is being sure no double quoting was missing or not >> escaped correctly ... also you don't need the g flag and RegExp is much >> more powerful than multiple strings >> >> `myString.split(/before(and|or)?after/);` >> >> instead of 3 partially repeated nonsense ? >> >> My 2 cents >> >> >> >
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