From cb834efd4d430936fd19ac2350d724010cc0dd01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Siri Hansen <siri@erlang.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 14:08:09 +0200
Subject: Add note about adjacent separator characters in string:tokens/2

Adjacent separator characters are treated as one in
string:tokens/2. This was shown in the example in the reference manual
but it was not written in words. A note about this is now added.
---
 lib/stdlib/doc/src/string.xml | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'lib/stdlib')

diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/string.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/string.xml
index c96cc95a44..b05d5cbc08 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/string.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/string.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 <erlref>
   <header>
     <copyright>
-      <year>1996</year><year>2013</year>
+      <year>1996</year><year>2014</year>
       <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
     </copyright>
     <legalnotice>
@@ -124,6 +124,10 @@
         <code type="none">
 > tokens("abc defxxghix jkl", "x ").
 ["abc", "def", "ghi", "jkl"]        </code>
+	<p>Note that, as shown in the example above, two or more
+	adjacent separator characters in <c><anno>String</anno></c>
+	will be treated as one. That is, there will not be any empty
+	strings in the resulting list of tokens.</p>
       </desc>
     </func>
     <func>
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