Re: new strsplit function

[Carnë Draug]

On 2 April 2013 18:04, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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!

I have just made the change on revision 11779. I have also created a
new task on the trackers https://savannah.gnu.org/task/index.php?12561
so we don't forget what packages got affected.

Finally, geometry and mechanics package need to be fixed some other
way since they make use of it on PKG_DEL and PKD_ADD scripts.

Carnë