* string.c (rb_str_split_m): Documented behavior of split on the empty

  string.  [ruby-trunk - Feature #3575]


git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@35275 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c90a2c74c2..f9ce659246 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Tue Apr 10 09:57:00 2012  Eric Hodel  <drbrain@segment7.net>
+
+	* string.c (rb_str_split_m):  Documented behavior of split on the empty
+	  string.  [ruby-trunk - Feature #3575]
+
 Tue Apr 10 09:48:31 2012  Eric Hodel  <drbrain@segment7.net>
 
 	* ext/zlib/zlib.c (rb_deflate_s_deflate):  Fixed ruby example replacing
diff --git a/string.c b/string.c
index 079891a04a..79de311358 100644
--- a/string.c
+++ b/string.c
@@ -5742,6 +5742,9 @@ static const char isspacetable[256] = {
  *  limit to the number of fields returned, and trailing null fields are not
  *  suppressed.
  *
+ *  When the input +str+ is empty an empty Array is returned as the string is
+ *  considered to have no fields to split.
+ *
  *     " now's  the time".split        #=> ["now's", "the", "time"]
  *     " now's  the time".split(' ')   #=> ["now's", "the", "time"]
  *     " now's  the time".split(/ /)   #=> ["", "now's", "", "the", "time"]
@@ -5754,6 +5757,8 @@ static const char isspacetable[256] = {
  *     "1,2,,3,4,,".split(',')         #=> ["1", "2", "", "3", "4"]
  *     "1,2,,3,4,,".split(',', 4)      #=> ["1", "2", "", "3,4,,"]
  *     "1,2,,3,4,,".split(',', -4)     #=> ["1", "2", "", "3", "4", "", ""]
+ *
+ *     "".split(',', -1)               #=> []
  */
 
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