Hello,

while trying to compact code to save tokens I ran into an issue when trying to use split with strings containing escaped numbers \0, \1, etc.. (to store binary data that will be converted with ord()

s="abc\0def ghijkl"
split(s," ")

This seems to stop at \0 and the string part after " " will not be in the resulting table.

Is this intended behavior or a bug? With other escaped characters as \n \r \t the splitting works fine.

If this could be possible it would help me save additional tokens.

Thank you,

TheRoboZ

"\0" is the "string-end-mark", so it seems, that split does what it should.

it does it with any number after \ and it's a bit inconsistent with the way you can use the string in ord() so I'd like a confirmation from @zep

\0 is no longer end string for unicode - so agree with TheRoboz that it should not stop

btw sub() seems to have a problem with /0 too

?sub("a\0b",1,1) --work
?sub("a\0b",2,2) -- dont work - output nothing
?sub("a\0b",1,3) --dont work - output nothing
?sub("a\0b",3,3) -- work