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[mlowe9]

How can I use the split command to split a string by another string, instead of one character?

set newlist [split oldlist MSH|]
set newlist [split oldlist "MSH|"]
set newlist [split oldlist {MSH|}]
set newlist [split oldlist ^(MSH)]

and none have worked. Why is something so easy so hard?
Thanks in advance...

 

[mlowe9]

Sorry, I didn't explain that very well, and my example sucked too.

I want to split a string by a group of characters. But the command is taking my group of characters and splitting the string by each individually.

Does that make sense?

 

[Bong]

Split only splits on individual characters (AFAIK):

split string ?splitChars?


Returns a list created by splitting string at each character that is in the splitChars argument. Each element of the result list will consist of the characters from string that lie between instances of the characters in splitChars.

To do what you want, I would use:
string first string1 string2 ?startIndex?
and
string range string first last

Bob Rashkin
rrashkin@csc.com

 

[mlowe9]

Thanks for your response. I will give it a shot.