Re: cut feature request - delimiters longer than one character

[Pádraig Brady]

On 02/01/10 17:35, Nexor wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I would love to see the --delimiter option accept (and use) strings
> longer than one character - what do you think?

Well one often requires more general regular expression matching
in addition to string matching, and keeping both within a tool like
sed is probably more cohesive? If one wanted to split on "--" for
example then you could do somthing like:

echo "1--2--3" | sed 's/--/\x00/g' | cut -d '' -f2

cheers,
Pádraig.