fish-shell/sphinx_doc_src/cmds/string-split.rst
Johannes Altmanninger 08eac28bd8 Add individual documentation pages for string's subcommands
This adds string-x.rst for each subcommand x of string. The main page
(string.rst) is not changed, except that examples are shown directly after
each subcommand.  The subcommand sections in string.rst are created by
textual inclusion of parts of the string-x.rst files.

Subcommand man pages can be viewed with either of:

```
man string collect
man string-collect
string collect <press F1 or Alt-h>
string collect -h
```

While `string -h ...` still prints the full help.

Closes #5968
2019-11-07 09:54:25 +01:00

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string-split - split strings by delimiter
=========================================
Synopsis
--------
.. BEGIN SYNOPSIS
::
string split [(-m | --max) MAX] [(-n | --no-empty)] [(-q | --quiet)] [(-r | --right)] SEP [STRING...]
string split0 [(-m | --max) MAX] [(-n | --no-empty)] [(-q | --quiet)] [(-r | --right)] [STRING...]
.. END SYNOPSIS
Description
-----------
.. BEGIN DESCRIPTION
``string split`` splits each STRING on the separator SEP, which can be an empty string. If ``-m`` or ``--max`` is specified, at most MAX splits are done on each STRING. If ``-r`` or ``--right`` is given, splitting is performed right-to-left. This is useful in combination with ``-m`` or ``--max``. With ``-n`` or ``--no-empty``, empty results are excluded from consideration (e.g. ``hello\n\nworld`` would expand to two strings and not three). Exit status: 0 if at least one split was performed, or 1 otherwise.
See also ``read --delimiter``.
``string split0`` splits each STRING on the zero byte (NUL). Options are the same as ``string split`` except that no separator is given.
``split0`` has the important property that its output is not further split when used in a command substitution, allowing for the command substitution to produce elements containing newlines. This is most useful when used with Unix tools that produce zero bytes, such as ``find -print0`` or ``sort -z``. See split0 examples below.
.. END DESCRIPTION
Examples
--------
.. BEGIN EXAMPLES
::
>_ string split . example.com
example
com
>_ string split -r -m1 / /usr/local/bin/fish
/usr/local/bin
fish
>_ string split '' abc
a
b
c
NUL Delimited Examples
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
::
>_ # Count files in a directory, without being confused by newlines.
>_ count (find . -print0 | string split0)
42
>_ # Sort a list of elements which may contain newlines
>_ set foo beta alpha\\ngamma
>_ set foo (string join0 $foo | sort -z | string split0)
>_ string escape $foo[1]
alpha\\ngamma
.. END EXAMPLES