string.split escaping

[Andreas Jung]

check out the maxsplit parameter of the split() method.

-aj

--On Donnerstag, 29. Mai 2003 16:03 Uhr +1000 Dave Harrison 
<dave at nullcube.com> wrote:

> If I have a string
>
> a = 'dog;cat;big;dog'
>
> How do I escape the last ';' so that when I call
>
> string.split(a, ';')
>
> I get
>
> ['dog', 'cat', 'big;dog']
>
> ??
>
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