String explode

[Bill-Kunj]

Motivation

Rholang currently does not support string-level operations. It is desirable to include a simple delimiter-based parsing of string data
Rholang is better with string primitives

Motivating Examples

Hierarchical naming cannot be supported using strings
@TheoXD A string such as /my/file/goes/here cannot be understood using the delimiter /
@fabcotech A string such as this.is.my.domain cannot be understood using the delimiter .

@tgrospic Code available at https://github.com/r-publishing/rchain/tree/feature-explode

[tgrospic]

I think we already have similar proposal opened by @jimscarver.

• Add string functions #37

Is there something additional you want to add in your proposal?

[Bill-Kunj]

#37 suggests a regex. This is a simple delimiter split.

[tgrospic]

#37 suggests a regex. This is a simple delimiter split.

Regular expressions are part of @fabcotech proposal:

• Regular expression string validation in Rholang #19.

Maybe @jimscarver can define split as other functions in his proposal that mimics Scala functions and we can merge these two proposals. Jim can you do that? We don't want to mix normal string functions with regex.

[Bill-Kunj]

Maybe @jimscarver can define split as other functions in his proposal that mimics Scala functions and we can merge these two proposals. Jim can you do that? We don't want to mix normal string functions with regex.

@jimscarver is out-of-action for now.
There is already code for the normal string function at https://github.com/r-publishing/rchain/tree/feature-explode. Can we move forward and normalize the RChip(s) once @jimscarver is available?