Multisplit: Difference between revisions

{{draft task}}It is often necessary to split a string into pieces based on several different (potentially multi-character) separator strings, while still retaining the information about which separators were present in the input. This is particularly useful when doing small parsing tasks. The task is to write code to demonstrate this.

Write code to demonstrate this. The function (or procedure or method, as appropriate) should take an input string and an ordered collection of separators, and split the string into pieces representing the various substrings. The order of the separators is significant: The delimiter order represents priority in matching. The first defined delimiter has the highest priority, so where there would be an ambiguity as to which separator to use at a particular point (e.g., because one separator is a prefix of another) the first separator in the collection should be used. Delimiters can be reused. The resultoutput offrom the function should be an ordered sequence of substrings.