Example: Split a string

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public static int main (string[] args) {
	string doctors_str = "William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy";

	// Output:
	//	``'William Hartnell'``
	//	``'Patrick Troughton'``
	//	``'Jon Pertwee'``
	//	``'Tom Baker'``
	//	``'Peter Davison'``
	//	``'Colin Baker'``
	//	``'Sylvester McCoy'``
	string[] doctors = doctors_str.split (", ");
	foreach (unowned string str in doctors) {
		print ("'%s'\n", str);
	}

	// Output:
	//	``'Alistair'``
	//	``'Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart'``
	string line = "Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart";
	string[] lines = line.split (" ", 2);
	foreach (unowned string str in lines) {
		print ("'%s'\n", str);
	}

	return 0;
}

 valac --pkg glib-2.0 string.split.vala

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• string.split

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