[TINKERPOP-3083] The split() step should provide a way to split an entire string

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.7.2
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0
• Component/s: language, process
• Assignee: Cole Greer
• Reporter: Kelvin Lawrence
• Created: 04/Jun/24 15:44
• Updated: 28/Aug/24 00:03
• Resolved: 28/Aug/24 00:03

Description

There are many use cases where it is helpful to be able to split an entire string into an array of characters. In other query languages, passing in a null string ('') as the parameter achieves this. I believe the Gremlin step should behave the same way. For example

Current behavior

g.inject('Hello').split('')

['Hello']

Proposed new behavior

g.inject('Hello').split('')

['H','e','l','l','o']