Hm ... don't we have #splitBy: for this? This seems like a possibly dangerous breaking change to me. No strong opinion, though. :-)
Best,
Christoph
Chris Muller uploaded a new version of Collections to project The Inbox:
http://source.squeak.org/inbox/Collections-cmm.1022.mcz
==================== Summary ====================
Name: Collections-cmm.1022
Author: cmm
Time: 18 November 2022, 11:14:01.223447 pm
UUID: 9a05d251-4f02-43de-94e8-0f077ec51680
Ancestors: Collections-nice.1021
Allow empty fields when using #subStrings:.
=============== Diff against Collections-nice.1021 ===============
Item was changed:
----- Method: String>>subStrings: (in category 'converting') -----
subStrings: separators
"Answer an array containing the substrings in the receiver separated
by the elements of separators."
| char result sourceStream subString |
- #Collectn.
- "Changed 2000/04/08 For ANSI <readableString> protocol."
(separators isString or:[separators allSatisfy: [:element | element isCharacter]]) ifFalse:
[^ self error: 'separators must be Characters.'].
sourceStream := ReadStream on: self.
result := OrderedCollection new.
subString := String new.
[sourceStream atEnd]
whileFalse:
[char := sourceStream next.
(separators includes: char)
+ ifTrue: [result add: subString copy.
+ subString := String new]
- ifTrue: [subString notEmpty
- ifTrue:
- [result add: subString copy.
- subString := String new]]
ifFalse: [subString := subString , (String with: char)]].
subString notEmpty ifTrue: [result add: subString copy].
^ result asArray!