On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Simen Kjaeraas <simen.kja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> munch("bar-baz", "-");
>
> returns "". Is there a way to do this apart from writing my own function?I think you've got the behavior of munch backwards. It will eat any characters that _are_ in the pattern string. Since 'b' is not in the string "-", it returns immediately, since it didn't munch anything. If you're looking for something to split up a string into tokens, you could either use find or split; the former could be used to slice the string one piece at a time, and the latter does it all at once at the expense of allocating a new array to put the slices in.
