VEX split, but using a string instead of symbol as the separator [SOLVED]

[just_bob_2nd]

Hello,

I have a primitive string attribute:
Bridge_Small_Dark_01

 

I need to procedurally extract the part of the string before "_Dark".

Using split it seems it only accepts singular symbols as a separator (eg "/"), I need to find a way to use the specific string as the separator.

 

Using

 s@name = split(s@name, "_Dark")[0];

does not work. Is there another function I should be looking into?

 

EDIT: using "_" as separator and using [0] + [1] etc in split would not work since not all assets have the same number of words before "_Dark"

 

EDIT2: Big thanks to Tomas Slancik for answering this on sidefx forums. Answer below:

 

use re_split() [www.sidefx.com]

string s = "Bridge_Small_Dark_01";
s[]@split = re_split( "_Dark", s );

Edited Tuesday at 04:34 AM by just_bob_2nd