On 20 October 2012 22:16, Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> wrote: > Honestly, this question makes me wonder if the proposed 'regexp-split' > is too complicated. If you want to trim whitespace, how about using > 'string-trim-right' or 'string-trim-both' before splitting? It seems > more likely to do what I would expect.
Yes. Keep it simple. Operations like trim-whitespace and drop-empty-strings-from-the-result (mentioned in the previous discussion) are so easy to do outside of regexp-split, why complicate the semantics? Limit is arguably more fundamental to the procedure. Anything else is pre- or post-processing.
