splitting a string into a list in specman

Question

Supposing I have a string:

str = “ab,cd,ef” 

and I want to split it into a list

lst = [“ab”,”cd”,ef”]

How can I do it best, assuming that I don’t know ahead of time how many items are in the string?

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Basically I'm looking for a specman equivalent to Perl's:

$str = "ab,cd,ef";
@lst = split /,/, $str;

Answer 1

str_split is what you want.

From Specman 6.1 docs:

str_split(str: string, regular-exp: string): list of string

Syntax Example

var s: list of string = str_split("first-second-third", "-");