How split can't behave like splitWhitespace. I guess it should and just be more
general.
Well, there is a similar library in Fortran. If I recall, there is a function a
little similar to split (it's also an iterator). It separates the concept of a
separator characters and unmatched characters. So it would be something like
that:
echo " a couple of \t words ".split(sep = Whitespace)
# @[, , a, couple, of, , , words, ]
echo " a couple of \t words ".split(ignore = Whitespace)
# @[a, couple, of, words]
