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.TH Text.split 3 2025-04-21 "Tomo man-pages"
.SH NAME
Text.split \- split a text by a delimiter
.SH LIBRARY
Tomo Standard Library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.BI Text.split\ :\ func(text:\ Text,\ delimiter:\ Text\ =\ ""\ ->\ [Text])
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
Splits the text into a list of substrings based on exact matches of a delimiter.


.SH ARGUMENTS

.TS
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Name	Type	Description	Default
text	Text	The text to be split. 	-
delimiter	Text	The delimiter used to split the text. 	""
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.SH RETURN
A list of subtexts resulting from the split.

.SH NOTES
To split based on a set of delimiters, use Text.split_any().
If an empty text is given as the delimiter, then each split will be the graphical clusters of the text.

.SH EXAMPLES
.EX
>> "one,two,,three".split(",")
= ["one", "two", "", "three"]

>> "abc".split()
= ["a", "b", "c"]
.EE