unconcatenate
English
editEtymology
editFrom un- + concatenate.
Adjective
editunconcatenate (not comparable)
- Not concatenate.
Verb
editunconcatenate (third-person singular simple present unconcatenates, present participle unconcatenating, simple past and past participle unconcatenated)
- (programming, transitive) To undo the process of concatenation.
- 2001, Patrick G. McKeown, Craig A. Piercy, Learning to Program with Visual Basic, page 181:
- However, since we are going to save this combo box back to the file, this would require “unconcatenating” the names before writing them to file, something we would like to avoid.
- 2014, Larry Pace, R Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, page 65:
- The collapse argument tells R to “unconcatenate” the individual lines and create a single string vector.