title: ESQL String Splitter Functions For Splitting Delimited Strings
body: <p>ESQL does not have an inbuilt string splitting function like Java and whilst it's easy enough to build a static function and add the *.jar to the IIB classpath several sites I've worked at have a blanket ban on using Java.</p>
  
  <p>So what does an efficient string splitter in ESQL look like.</p>