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functx:lines
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Split a string into separate lines

Description
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The functx:lines function splits a string into individual lines, using the 
carriage return and newline characters to indicate the end of a line.

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   * - **Parameters**
     - **Description**
   * - arg:string()
     - the string to split

Examples
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   * - **XPath**
     - **Results**
   * - functx:lines('a value')
     - a value
   * - functx:lines($in-xml)
     - ('a', 'value', 'on', 'many', 'lines')

See Also
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* :ref:`functx_line-count`.
* :ref:`functx_max-line-length`.