Re: patch to change behavior of g_strsplit on empty string back to 1.2 behavior

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On Wednesday, July 18, 2001, at 02:12  PM, Owen Taylor wrote:

> Well, there is clearly one thing missing here ... the corresponding
> change to the documentation (docs/glib/tmpl/string_utils.sgml) :-)
>
> That needs a comment to the point:
>
>  "The result of a splitting an empty string is an empty vector"
>
> Since there is no way you could logically deduce this.

OK. I'll look at that and make a new patch that does that.

> If you look at the docs, the documented behavior is supposed to be that
> the trailing portion from the part past max_delimiter go into the last 
> token. That is,
>
>   "w,x,y,z", ",", 2 => "w" "x,y,z"
>
> The code in GLib stable didn't do that either, however, what it produced 
> was
>
>   "w,x,y,z", ",", 2 => "w" "x" "y,z"

OK. I'll update the test I wrote to expect that behavior and fix the 
implementation to produce that behavior, and then put a new patch up in 
the bug report and on the list.

    -- Darin