Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > If the input comes from the end user, we certainly would want to > allow "word1 word2\tword3 " as input (i.e. squishing repeated Any intelligent reader may have guessed already, but before I stupidly told Emacs to refill the paragraph, the above example had two SPs between word1 and word2. Sorry for being sloppy. > delimiters into one without introducing an "empty" element, allowing > more than one delimiter characters like SP and HT, and ignoring > leading or trailing runs of delimiter characters). > > If the input is generated internally, perhaps we should rethink the > interface between the function that wants to do the for-each-word > and its caller; if the caller wants to pass multiple things to the > callee, it should be able to do so without first having to stuff > these multiple things into a single string, only to force the callee > to use this helper to split them out into individual pieces. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html