SplitString

Synopsis

Defun: SplitString(
       String, $source,
       String, $delim )
@{...} List;

Description:
Returns a list of all the words formed by splitting a given source into "words",
delimited by given characters
If $delim is the empty string, i.e., "", then it returns
a list of all the characters in $source as single-character strings.

Examples:
Simple case. Second arg is a single space.
splitString("These are words"; " ") => {"These"; "are"; "words"}
Punctuation is not removed unless requested.
splitString("These are words."; " ") => {"These"; "are"; "words."}
Here there are two delimiters, either is removed.
splitString("These are words."; ". ") => {"These"; "are"; "words"}
Multiple occurrences of the delimiters are ignored.
splitString("Two words"; " ") => {"Two"; "words"}
If no delimiter is supplied, it splits into characters.
splitString("Word"; "") => {"W"; "o"; "r"; "d"}

Input Arguments:
source - Specify the string to split
delim - Specify the character on which to split the string

Returns:
List - Characters separated by given delimiter

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