[Tutor] Parsing string with variable length delimiter?

[Jeffrey F. Bloss]

On 9/7/04 12:10 PM -0400, Kent Johnson wrote:

> If you use string.split() with no arguments, it will treat runs of
> whitespace as a single separator. This is different behavior from
> string.split(' '), which treats each individual space as a separator:

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DOH! Simple and easy. Why didn't I try that when it's plain as day the 
separator is _optional_ in the docs?? ;)

Thanks, Kent.