fish-shell/doc_src/cmds/string-split.rst
Johannes Altmanninger 97db9d5c38 docs synopses: fix alignment of continuation lines
This corrects what looks like wrong alignment of some synopsis lines.
(I think the alignment is not a bad idea but it makes us do more
manual work, maybe we can automate that in future.  We still need to
figure out how to translate it to HTML.)

"man -l build/user_doc/man/man1/history.1" before:

	string match [-a | --all] [-e | --entire] [-i | --ignore-case]
	            [-r | --regex] [-n | --index] [-q | --quiet] [-v | --invert]
	            PATTERN [STRING…]

and after:

	string match [-a | --all] [-e | --entire] [-i | --ignore-case]
	             [-r | --regex] [-n | --index] [-q | --quiet] [-v | --invert]
	             PATTERN [STRING…]

Also make the lines align the same way in the RST source by carefully
choosing the position of the backslash. I'm not sure why we used
two backslashes per line. Use only one; this gives us no choice
of where to put it so both source and man page output are aligned.
Change tabs to spaces to make the alignment in the source work.
2022-01-16 14:05:47 +01:00

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string-split - split strings by delimiter
=========================================
Synopsis
--------
.. BEGIN SYNOPSIS
| ``string`` split [(**-m** | **--max**) *MAX*] [**-n** | **--no-empty**] [**-q** | **--quiet**]
\ [**-r** | **--right**] *SEP* [*STRING* ...]
| ``string`` split0 [(**-m** | **--max**) *MAX*] [**-n** | **--no-empty**] [**-q** | **--quiet**]
\ [**-r** | **--right**] [*STRING* ...]
.. END SYNOPSIS
Description
-----------
.. BEGIN DESCRIPTION
``string split`` splits each STRING on the separator SEP, which can be an empty string. If ``-m`` or ``--max`` is specified, at most MAX splits are done on each STRING. If ``-r`` or ``--right`` is given, splitting is performed right-to-left. This is useful in combination with ``-m`` or ``--max``. With ``-n`` or ``--no-empty``, empty results are excluded from consideration (e.g. ``hello\n\nworld`` would expand to two strings and not three). Exit status: 0 if at least one split was performed, or 1 otherwise.
Use ``-f`` or ``--fields`` to print out specific fields. Unless ``--allow-empty`` is used, if a given field does not exist, then the command exits with status 1 and does not print anything.
See also the ``--delimiter`` option of the :ref:`read <cmd-read>` command.
``string split0`` splits each STRING on the zero byte (NUL). Options are the same as ``string split`` except that no separator is given.
``split0`` has the important property that its output is not further split when used in a command substitution, allowing for the command substitution to produce elements containing newlines. This is most useful when used with Unix tools that produce zero bytes, such as ``find -print0`` or ``sort -z``. See split0 examples below.
.. END DESCRIPTION
Examples
--------
.. BEGIN EXAMPLES
::
>_ string split . example.com
example
com
>_ string split -r -m1 / /usr/local/bin/fish
/usr/local/bin
fish
>_ string split '' abc
a
b
c
>_ string split --allow-empty -f1,3,5 '' abc
a
c
NUL Delimited Examples
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
::
>_ # Count files in a directory, without being confused by newlines.
>_ count (find . -print0 | string split0)
42
>_ # Sort a list of elements which may contain newlines
>_ set foo beta alpha\ngamma
>_ set foo (string join0 $foo | sort -z | string split0)
>_ string escape $foo[1]
alpha\ngamma
.. END EXAMPLES