Re: new strsplit function

[Ben Abbott]

On Apr 2, 2013, at 12:00 PM, Carnë Draug wrote:

> On 2 April 2013 13:02, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I've added a "conventional" to the possible delimitertypes, and selected 
>> this as the default when all delimiters are scalar characters. I've also 
>> enabled 2D character array inputs. The following replacements may be made 
>> into OF, and Octave core, to use Jaroslav's implementation.  A changeset to 
>> core to use these substitutions will also be needed.
>> 
>> - strsplit (str, del)
>> + strsplit (str, del, "collapsedelimiters", false, "delimitertype", 
>> "conventional")
>> 
>> - strsplit (str, del, false)
>> + strsplit (str, del, "collapsedelimiters", false, "delimitertype", 
>> "conventional")
>> 
>> - strsplit (str, del, true)
>> + strsplit (str, del, "collapsedelimiters", true, "delimitertype", 
>> "conventional")
> 
> That means that OF packages with this change, will only work after 3.8
> being released, and the ones without the change will stop working once
> 3.8 is released, so the releases would have to be timed.
> 
> Instead, I propose we add the old strsplit in the private directory of
> each package. Then, once 3.8 gets released, we can remove them and
> make the change as each package gets re-released.

That's a good idea!

> Also, instead of "conventional", what about "legacy"? Just for sake of
> cohesion, since matlab seems to use that word to specify the old
> behaviour of a function. For example:
> http://www.mathworks.co.uk/help/matlab/ref/unique.html

Ok. I'll use legacy instead of conventional.

Ben