Name: nt126004 Date: 08/29/2001


The specification of the Pattern#split limit argument doesn't match Perl and
misses the whole point of the limit. According to
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html

  The input "boo:and:foo", for example, yields the following results with these
parameters:

  Regex Limit Result
     : 2 { "boo", "and" }

But this is *not* what Perl's split does, and misses the
whole point of the "limit" argument. The perl program

perl -le 'print join("|", split(" ", "boo:and:foo", 2))'

prints

boo and:foo

*not*

boo and

The point of the "limit" argument is to limit the number
of times the pattern is applied, so that, e.g., only the
first ':' is treated as a separator. But the Java version
doesn't provide this functionality.
(Review ID: 130770)
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