Seems logical to me - in the middle of the string you have two delimiter characters together, with an empty string between them. So I would expect for example: g_strsplit_set ("abc://:def", ":/", -1) to return "abc","","","","def" Salsaman. http://lives.sourceforge.net https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/salsaman On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Alejandro T. Colombini <atcolombini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > I'm using the GLib function g_strsplit_set and I found its behaviour > is not what I expected when two of the symbols in the given set are > found together. For instance, following the examples in the > documentation: g_strsplit_set ("abc:/def", ":/", -1) will return a > NULL-terminated vector containing the three strings "abc", "" and "def" > instead of the two strings "abc" and "def" that I would expect. > > As I read in the gtk-devel-list it was a bug in g_strsplit producing > this kind of results back in 2000 I didn't know if this was a bug also > in g_strsplit_set or the expected result for this function. > > If this is the expected result, can someone explain why? > > By the way, i'm using the GLib version packaged in Debian GNU/Linux > Wheezy so maybe this issue has changed since this version was released. > > Thanks, > Alex > > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list