Subj : string.split();
To   : Digital Man
From : MCMLXXIX
Date : Thu Sep 30 2010 11:53 am

  Re: string.split();
  By: Digital Man to MCMLXXIX on Tue Sep 28 2010 15:16:24

 >  > I've been working on something that splits a string at certain match
 >  > points, and noticed that it crashes JSEXEC in windows, but not in linux..
 >  >
 >  > try this:
 >  >
 >  >     "this is a test".split(/(is|a|test)/ig);
 > 
 > It is interesting that it's crashing. Did you confirm that you're testing wi
 > the same version of SpiderMonkey (jslib) on Windows and Linux? When I get a
 > chance, I'll see if I can pass on a trace to the SpiderMonkey guys. They may
 > have already fixed this one.
 > 
 > Anyway, String.split() doesn't take a regexp as an argument, so what you're
 > trying to do won't work anyway. See
 > https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String 
 > details.
 > 

interestingly enough, using a regexp gives you a slightly different result:
"0123456789".split("2"); // 01,3456789
"0123456789".split(/2/); // 01,2,3456789



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