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`split chars` for strings

Split a string into a list of characters.

Signature

> split chars {flags}

Flags

--grapheme-clusters, -g: split on grapheme clusters
--code-points, -c: split on code points (default; splits combined characters)

Input/output types:

input	output
list<string>	list<list<string>>
string	list<string>

Examples

Split the string into a list of characters

>'hello'|split chars
╭───┬───╮
│0│h│
│1│e│
│2│l│
│3│l│
│4│o│
╰───┴───╯

Split on grapheme clusters

>'🇯🇵ほげ'|split chars-g
╭───┬────╮
│0│🇯🇵│
│1│ほ│
│2│げ│
╰───┴────╯

Split multiple strings into lists of characters

> ['hello', 'world'] |split chars
╭───┬───────────╮
│0│╭───┬───╮│
│││0│h││
│││1│e││
│││2│l││
│││3│l││
│││4│o││
││╰───┴───╯│
│1│╭───┬───╮│
│││0│w││
│││1│o││
│││2│r││
│││3│l││
│││4│d││
││╰───┴───╯│
╰───┴───────────╯

split chars for strings

Signature

Flags

Input/output types:

Examples

`split chars` for strings