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dreamweaver.getTokens()

Availability

Dreamweaver 1.0

Description

Accepts a string and splits it into tokens.

Arguments

searchString, separatorCharacters

searchString is the string to be separated into tokens.
separatorCharacters is the character or characters that signifies the end of a token. Separator characters in quoted strings are ignored. If separatorCharacters contains a space, all white-space characters (for example, tabs) are treated as separator characters as if you had explicitly specified them. Two or more consecutive white space characters are treated as a single separator.

Returns

An array of token strings.

Enabler

None.

Example

dreamweaver.getTokens('foo("my arg1", 34)', '(),') returns the tokens:

foo
"my arg 1"
34