shaved some milliseconds off split

worldeditadditions/utils/strings/split.lua

@@ -42,13 +42,13 @@ function worldeditadditions.gsplit(text, pattern, plain)
 end
 
 
---- Split a string into substrings separated by a pattern.
+--- Split a string into substrings separated by a pattern. -- Deprecated
 -- @param	text	string	The string to iterate over
 -- @param	pattern	string	The separator pattern
 -- @param	plain	boolean	If true (or truthy), pattern is interpreted as a
 -- 							plain string, not a Lua pattern
 -- @returns	table	A sequence table containing the substrings
-function worldeditadditions.split(text, pattern, plain)
+function worldeditadditions.dsplit(text, pattern, plain)
 	local ret = {}
 	for match in worldeditadditions.gsplit(text, pattern, plain) do
 		table.insert(ret, match)
@@ -62,15 +62,24 @@ end
 -- @param	plain	boolean	If true (or truthy), pattern is interpreted as a
 -- 							plain string, not a Lua pattern
 -- @returns	table	A sequence table containing the substrings
-function worldeditadditions.fsplit (str,dlm,plain)
-	local pos, ins = 0, 0
-	local ret = {}
-	repeat
-		ins = str:find(dlm,pos,plain)
-		table.insert(ret,str:sub(pos,ins - 1))
-		pos = ins + #dlm
-	until not str:find(dlm,pos,plain)
-	print(pos..","..#str)
+function worldeditadditions.split (str,dlm,plain)
+	local pos, ret = 0, {}
+	local ins, i = str:find(dlm,pos,plain)
+	-- if plain shaves off some time in the while statement
+	if plain then
+		while ins do
+			table.insert(ret,str:sub(pos,ins - 1))
+			pos = ins + #dlm
+			ins = str:find(dlm,pos,true)
+		end
+	else
+		while ins do
+			table.insert(ret,str:sub(pos,ins - 1))
+			pos = i + 1
+			ins, i = str:find(dlm,pos)
+		end
+	end
+	-- print(pos..","..#str)
 	if str:sub(pos,#str) ~= "" then
 		table.insert(ret,str:sub(pos,#str))
 	end