split function in squeak Smalltalk

Question

I'm currently working on an exercise in squeak-Smalltalk. I want to split a string that behaves somewhat like split functions in Java or python, but hardly found anything on the internet. Any suggestions please? How can I implement it?

Thank you!

Answer 1

Unfortunately no, it seems there is no split or splitBy: message in squeak (unlike Pharo...) so I implemented such a method by myself.

split: aSentence
|count str strArr |
    str := aSentence.
    count := ((aSentence select: [:a | a = $ ])) size.
    strArr := OrderedCollection new.
    [count >= 0]
    whileTrue: [
        strArr add: (str copyFrom: 1 to: (str indexOf: $ ifAbsent: [str size + 1]) - 1).
        str := str copyFrom: ((str indexOf: $ ) + 1) to: (str size).
        count := count - 1.
    ].
^strArr