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SPLIT
Chapter 2 Program Instructions
Field of Application Function splitting a string into an array according to the position of a
specified separator character and returning the number of elements in
the array.
Syntax SPLIT(,,)
1 2
1
2
is the string to be split.
is the string array in which the parts of the split string should
be put.
specifies the ASCII value for the separator.
Remarks The string is divided by a specified separating character which may found an
infinite number of times in the string. Each part of the string will become an
element in the string array, but the separator character itself will not be
included in the array.
Should the string be split into more than four elements, an error will occur
(Error 57 “Subscript out of range”). To avoid this error, issue a DIM
statement to create a larger array before the string is split.
Example In this example a string is divided into five parts by the separator character
# (ASCII 35 decimal). The result will be an array of five elements numbered
0–4 as specified by a DIM statement. Finally, the number of elements is also
printed on the screen.
10 A$="ONE#TWO#THREE#FOUR#FIVE"
20 B$="ARRAY$"
30 DIM ARRAY$(5)
40 C%=SPLIT(A$,B$,35)
50 PRINT ARRAY$(0)
60 PRINT ARRAY$(1)
70 PRINT ARRAY$(2)
80 PRINT ARRAY$(3)
90 PRINT ARRAY$(4)
100
RUN
PRINT C%
ONE
TWO
THREE
FOUR
FIVE
5
yields:
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