From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Oct 22 04:45:25 1999
Subject: bug (?) in split.m with empty string
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Joao Cardoso <jcardoso at inescn dot pt>
Cc: bug-octave <bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 04:44:07 -0500 (CDT)

On 21-Oct-1999, Joao Cardoso <jcardoso at inescn dot pt> wrote:

| If the string argument to 'split' is empty, and error is returned;
| should'n an empty string be returned?
| 
| octave:53> split("a",".")
| ans = a
| octave:54> split("",".")
| error: split: s must not be shorter than t
| error: evaluating if command near line 40, column 3
| error: evaluating if command near line 35, column 3
| error: called from `split' in file `/usr/local/share/octave/2.1.14/m/strings/split.m'

Sure, why not?  I fixed my sources.  The fix is trivial, so if you
need it...

jwe



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