unconcatenate

English

Etymology

un- +‎ concatenate

Adjective

unconcatenate (not comparable)

1. Not concatenate.

Verb

unconcatenate (third-person singular simple present unconcatenates, present participle unconcatenating, simple past and past participle unconcatenated)

1. (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.