str:tokenize()
splits a string using a set of characters as delimiters that determine where the splits should occur, returning a node-set containing the resulting strings.
Syntax
str:tokenize(string, delimiters)
Arguments
string
- The string to tokenize.
delimiters
- Each character in this string is used as a word separator while tokenizing.
Returns
A node-set of token
elements, each containing one token from the string
.
For example:
str:tokenize('2007-09-14-03T11:40:23', '-T:')
Returns a node set like this:
<token>2007</token> <token>09</token> <token>14</token> <token>11</token> <token>40</token> <token>23</token>
Defined
Gecko support
Supported in Gecko 1.9 and later.