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functx:lines

Split a string into separate lines

Description

The functx:lines function splits a string into individual lines, using the carriage return and newline characters to indicate the end of a line.

Arguments and Return Type

XQuery Function Declaration

declare namespace functx = "http://www.functx.com";
declare function functx:lines
  ( $arg as xs:string? )  as xs:string* {

   tokenize($arg, '(\r\n?|\n\r?)')
 } ;

Examples

<in-xml>a
value
on
many
lines</in-xml>

functx:lines('a value')

a value

functx:lines($in-xml)

('a',
'value',
'on',
'many',
'lines')

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