Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Introduce a variant of the `string_list_split_in_place()` function that
> takes a string of accepted delimiters.
>
> By contrast to its cousin `string_list_split_in_place()` which splits
> the given string at every instance of the single character `delim`, the
> `_multi` variant splits the given string any any character appearing in
> the string `delim`.
>
> Like `strtok()`, the `_multi` variant skips past sequential delimiting
> characters. For example:
>
> string_list_split_in_place(&xs, xstrdup("foo::bar::baz"), ":", -1);
>
> would place in `xs` the elements "foo", "bar", and "baz".
strtok() also skips leading and trailing delimiters, i.e. the above
will give you identical result for ":foo:bar:baz:".
It would be useful to test that here in addition to the existing ones.
> +for test_fn in test_split test_split_in_place_multi
> +do
> + $test_fn "foo:bar:baz" ":" "-1" <<-\EOF
> + 3
> + [0]: "foo"
> + [1]: "bar"
> + [2]: "baz"
> + EOF
>
> + $test_fn "foo:bar:baz" ":" "0" <<-\EOF
> + 1
> + [0]: "foo:bar:baz"
> + EOF
>
> + $test_fn "foo:bar:baz" ":" "1" <<-\EOF
> + 2
> + [0]: "foo"
> + [1]: "bar:baz"
> + EOF
>
> + $test_fn "foo:bar:baz" ":" "2" <<-\EOF
> + 3
> + [0]: "foo"
> + [1]: "bar"
> + [2]: "baz"
> + EOF
