[erlang-questions] How can I break this string into a list of strings?

[Constantine Povietkin]

Hi,

Just convert it to binary and use binary:split.

В Суб, 24/12/2016 в 16:34 -0500, lloyd@REDACTED пишет:
> Hello,
> 
> A naive question. 
> 
> But every time I look into the re module my heart starts pounding. I
> spend uncountable time figuring out what I need to do. But this time
> I failed.
> 
> Suppose I have the following string:
> 
>     "<h1>Hello!</h1>\n     <h2>How are you?</h2>\n    <p>Some text\n
> and more text.</p>"
> 
> I would like to break it into a list:
> 
>     ["<h1>Hello!</h1>", "<h2>How are you?</h2>", "<p>Some text\n and
> more text.</p>"]
> 
> string:token(MyString, "$\n") doesn't work because it would break the
> paragraph. 
> 
> So I try:
> 
>     re:replace(Copy, [$>,$\n], [$>,$",$,,$"], [global, {return,
> list}]).
> 
> But I get:
> 
>    "<h1>Hello!</h1>\",\"     <h2>How are you?</h2>\",\"    <p>This
> is....
> 
> I don't want those pesky escaped quotes at the end of the heads. I
> want the real deal. 
> 
> But how can I make it happen?
> 
> Thanks and holiday cheer to all,
> 
> LRP
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