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<div><h1>separate -- split a string into pieces</h1>
<div class="single"><h2>Description</h2>
<div><tt>separate(d,s)</tt> -- split the string <tt>s</tt> into pieces delimited by the string <tt>d</tt>.<p/>
The value is a list of the pieces, the number of which is one more than the number of occurrences of d in s, so that the pieces may be reassembled with <a href="_between.html" title="insert something between elements of a list">between</a>.<table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : separate( ".", "a.b.c.d" )
o1 = {a, b, c, d}
o1 : List</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i2 : peek separate( ".", "a.b.c.d" )
o2 = {"a", "b", "c", "d"}</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i3 : demark("=",ooo)
o3 = a=b=c=d</pre>
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<div class="waystouse"><h2>Ways to use <tt>separate</tt> :</h2>
<ul><li>separate(String)</li>
<li>separate(String,String)</li>
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