From 31a3017ea20a8c69d1906b59c3a9fb38cc1da993 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: LordMidas <55047920+LordMidas@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:04:02 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] feat: add split function to string utils

Different from native squirrel split which considers every character in the `_delimiter` string to be a delimiter rather than the entire `_delimiter` string as the delimiter.
---
 msu/utils/string.nut | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)

diff --git a/msu/utils/string.nut b/msu/utils/string.nut
index 895ddd6be..a94a1fcbe 100644
--- a/msu/utils/string.nut
+++ b/msu/utils/string.nut
@@ -34,4 +34,32 @@
 	{
 		return _end.len() <= _string.len() && _string.slice(-_end.len()) == _end;
 	}
+
+	function split( _string, _delimiter, _skipEmpty = true )
+	{
+		if (_string == "")
+			return [];
+
+		if (_delimiter.len() == 1 && _skipEmpty)
+			return ::split(_string, _delimiter);
+
+		local ret = [];
+		local idx;
+		while ((idx = _string.find(_delimiter)) != null)
+		{
+			local val = _string.slice(0, idx);
+			if (!_skipEmpty || val != "")
+			{
+				ret.push(val);
+			}
+			_string = _string.slice(idx + _delimiter.len());
+		}
+
+		if (!_skipEmpty || _string != "")
+		{
+			ret.push(_string);
+		}
+
+		return ret;
+	}
 }