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Message: [QUOTE="Virgil Green, post: 615987"] I see no conflict or ambiguity. As you pointed out, *trailing* empty strings will be discarded. There is no trailing empty string until there is a delimiter. The beginning of the string is not a delimiter with respect to the pattern, IMHO. The section I quoted above is the rule to be used in a special case... when there are no pattern matches. The second section you quoted is only in force when there is at least one pattern match. I assume it was intended to prevent the return of an empty string element when the pattern matched the tail characters of the string. [/QUOTE]