On 2024-06-12 11:48, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> So the only way to "break the string up" is never to put it together
> in the first place.  Using an array would be one way to do that, but
> not necessarily the best way depending on where/how the substrings
> originate.
Yeah, that has to be the answer.  If I want to break up "Let me not, 'to 
the m'"arriage of" true minds" into:
Le
te me n
ot, to th
e marriage
  of true minds

... the parts would have to exist separately before concatenation cuz 
once together there's no paper trail back to where the parts came from.  
It's actually a dumb question even tho it's worth asking -- my array 
would have to pre-exist in which case the elements would indeed be 
delimited from each other.  But you can't unscramble the egg.