Understanding optionSplit

By: Lucas Thurston

Things only become slightly more complex when we have subexpressions in each of the three parts. The main rules still hold true:

1) the parts are prioritized last, first, middle,
2) the subparts are prioritized according to their context,
3) when there are enough values that a value needs to repeat, it comes from the lowest priority subpart, or
4) if there is a middle, it will rotate or repeat as necessary.

These types of expressions would become increasingly difficult to describe in our shorthand. Here is an attempt to demonstrate how optionSplit would prioritize each item in a longer expression:

			8	9
3	4	5	6	7	2	1
string1|	|string2|	|string3|*	|string4|	|string5|*	|string6|	|string7|

The "middle" part will continue to cycle through its values until each item has a value assigned by optionSplit.

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