Re: Iterating over string with delimiter that is multiple occurrences of the same character

[Scott Fial <scott@...>]

> but what is the best way of doing the same thing for a string where the
> delimiter is ;;, e.g.
>
> s = "a;;b;;c"             (where a, b and c can be any length and can
> include non repeating occurrences of ; )

The encoding format seems ambiguous. E.g.,

  Input 1  |  Input 2  | Encoded
  ---------+-----------+--------
     a;    |     b     |  a;;;b
     a     |    ;b     |  a;;;b

There is no way to parse a;;;b and be guaranteed to recover the original 
inputs.

Scott