splitString

1.50

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Description

Description:

An SQF version of C++ strtok. Splits given string str into an array of tokens according to given delimiters. In addition, if empty string "" is used for delimiters, str is split by each character.

Groups:

Uncategorised

Syntax

Syntax:

str splitString delimiters

Parameters:

str: String - A string to split

delimiters: String - one or more characters, each used as a separate delimiter.

Return Value:

Array

Examples

Example 1:

_str = "- This, is a sample string." splitString "-,. "; // ["This","is","a","sample","string"] _str joinString " "; // "This is a sample string"

Example 2:

"\A3\ui_f\data\map\vehicleicons\iconLogic_ca.paa" splitString "\."; // ["A3","ui_f","data","map","vehicleicons","iconLogic_ca","paa"]

Example 3:

"1:2:3" splitString ":"; // ["1","2","3"]

Example 4:

["test","test"] joinString toString [12345] splitString toString [12345]; // ["test","test"]

Example 5:

"Japa is the best!" splitString "" joinString " "; // "J a p a i s t h e b e s t !"

Example 6:

_cmd = currentMagazineDetail player; //"9mm 16Rnd Mag(13/16)[id/cr:10000011/0]" _cmd splitString "([ ]/:)"; //["9mm","16Rnd","Mag","13","16","id","cr","10000011","0"]

Example 7:

Remove all \r\n from file:loadFile "somefile.txt" splitString toString [13,10] joinString " "

Additional Information

See also:

joinStringsetresizereverseselectinfindtoArrayforEachcountdeleteAtdeleteRangeappendsortparamparamsarrayIntersecttoStringUnicode Character Table

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Posted on May 17, 2016 - 14:18 (UTC)

BaerMitUmlaut

This command is unreliable/broken when it comes to some non-ASCII characters (as of Arma 3 1.58): "Mörser" splitString "" -> ["M"," "," ","r","s","e","r"] "Mörser" splitString "ö" -> ["M","rser"] "Mörser" splitString "ä" -> ["M"," rser"]