[cl-ppcre-devel] CL-PPCRE Split behaviour

[Matthew Sachs]

Sébastien Saint-Sevin wrote:
>> I don't know the Perl behaviour in this particular case, but I hope it 
>> is not a peculiar behaviour as the doc says :-)
>>
>> Ex : (cl-ppcre:split "\\s+" " foo bar baz ")
>> ==>  ("" "foo" "bar" "baz")
>>
>> I would prefer to get ("foo" "bar" "baz")

bash$ perl -e 'print join(" ", map { "\"$_\"" } split(/\s+/, " foo bar 
baz ")), "\n"'
"" "foo" "bar" "baz"

CL-PPCRE is matching Perl's behavior here.