[erlang-questions] re:split not splitting at pipe symbol

[Alain O'Dea]

On 2011-01-08, at 11:02, Dirk Scharff <dirk.scharff@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hi all!
> 
> I'm experiencing a problem with re:split/2 which doesn't seem to be able to split at a pipe symbol "|". Is there a reason for this or is this a bug?
> 
> Reproduce as follows:
> 1> re:split("123|456","|").

Pipe is a meaningful symbol in regular expressions. It means 'or'.  You need to escape the pipe:

    re:split("123|456","\\|").

> [<<"1">>,<<"2">>,<<"3">>,<<"|">>,<<"4">>,<<"5">>,<<"6">>,
> <<>>]
> 2> re:split("123|456",[124]).  
> [<<"1">>,<<"2">>,<<"3">>,<<"|">>,<<"4">>,<<"5">>,<<"6">>,
> <<>>]
> 3> regexp:split("123|456","|").
> {ok,["123","456"]}
> 
> Regards,
> Dirk.
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