[erlang-questions] bug in binary:split with trim?

[Pablo Platt]

Is there a reason to make it work only for trailing empty parts but not for all empty parts?



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From: Ahmed Omar <spawn.think@REDACTED>
To: Pablo Platt <pablo.platt@REDACTED>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: [erlang-questions] bug in binary:split with trim?


According to documentation it's not
trim
Removes trailingempty parts of the result (as does trim in re:split/3)

http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/binary.html#split-2


On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Pablo Platt <pablo.platt@REDACTED> wrote:

binary:split with the trim option doesn't remove empty results from the beginning of the binary:
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>binary:split(<<"/a/b/">>, <<"/">>, [global, trim]).
>[<<>>,<<"a">>,<<"b">>]
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>binary:split(<<"//a/b///">>, <<"/">>, [trim, global]).
>[<<>>,<<>>,<<"a">>,<<"b">>]
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>Is this a bug?
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