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April 29, 2011 22:42
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Split a string into a list of string by breaking "words" separated by spaces
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| let split s = | |
| let l = String.length s in | |
| let rec whitespace i = | |
| if i >= l then [] else | |
| if s.[i] = ' ' then whitespace (i+1) else nonws i 1 | |
| and nonws i j = | |
| if (i+j) = l then [(i,j)] else | |
| if s.[i+j] = ' ' then (i,j) :: whitespace (i+j) else nonws i (j+1) in | |
| List.map (fun (i, l) -> String.sub s i l) (whitespace 0) |
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