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Doubt in split().

 
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The above is a question from whizlab simulator. Can anyone please tell me how the output is coming to be 4?
I thought the split method is supposed to split a string around matches of a regex. here regex is a{3} so doesnt that leave bb to be the two tokens.??
 
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The tokens are "", "", "", "bb" as shown below:

[ August 13, 2006: Message edited by: Barry Gaunt ]
 
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BUt how can a string of zero length be considered a token when I havent used any kind of greedy quantifier? And going by the explanation. there is a token on the left of the first ""aaa. Then why isnt there also a token just before the BB. like aaa""bb".?
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The "bb" is the token. Just before this token there is the separator "aaa".
 
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