[%CFEngine_function_prototype(string, regex, maxent)%]

Description: Splits string into at most maxent substrings wherever regex occurs, and returns the list with those strings.

The regular expression is [unanchored][unanchored].

If the maximum number of substrings is insufficient to accommodate all the entries, the final entry in the generated slist will contain the rest of the un-split string.

[%CFEngine_function_attributes(string, regex, maxent)%]

Example:

[%CFEngine_include_snippet(splitstring.cf, #+begin_src cfengine3, .*end_src)%]

Output:

[%CFEngine_include_snippet(splitstring.cf, #+begin_src\s+example_output\s, .end_src)%]

History: Deprecated in CFEngine 3.6 in favor of string_split

See also: string_split()