Spot on. I’m still new to Erlang so most BIFs are still strangers to me. I probably should’ve made more emphasis on the ‘tangential’ point of learning a new language only if it forces you to think and code differently.

Thanks for stopping by though

U

1> string:tokens(”foo bar\nbaz_bazzle”, ” \n_”).
["foo","bar","baz","bazzle"]

http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/string.html#tokens-2