String parsing / tokens / split

Noctifer

I was sure I had gotten this working once but it could just be various languages blurring in my head..

I know that we can split strings in Twine2 (Harlowe) using the original (substring:) and the new "abcde"'s (a: 2,4) , but both require a range of start-to-end to extract.

And there is (count:) for how many times something appears and (contains:) for checking if something exists, and I think there was even an index somewhere that I'm not finding right this second..

What I cannot seem to find anywhere though (and maybe its because the search parameters are just too common to search effectively on google / here / twine2.neocities.org is:

How do you take a string (eg: "Hello World Foo") and get it converted into an array with a the delimiter (eg. " ")?

I know the long (and slow) way of doing it might be to go character by character searching for the token, than get the substring from 'start' to 'current-1' or something, but that is really ugly. The hard fast way might be to go back and figure out how to do the twine-javascript bit but I am trying to not keep mixing languages (why I've been so excited by Twine).. Is there something already in place so I don't have to figure out how to reinvent the wheel?

Much thanks!

Noctifer

Answering my own question, the following seems to work: http://twinery.org/forum/discussion/3253/can-t-call-the-string-split-method-from-within-a-passage-using-harlowe

In Javascript I went ahead and put:

String.prototype.spl = String.prototype.split;

In Twine then I could do:

(set: $commandToSplit to "test command split")
(set: $commandOutput to $commandToSplit.spl(" "))
Length: (print: $commandOutput.length)
2nd Element: (print: $commandOutput's 2nd)

And it seems to work fine - thank you @prof_yaffle