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+/* Adapted from: https://stackoverflow.com/a/45502134/5401763 under CC BY-SA 4.0 */
+exports.splitSegments = function (string, pattern) {
+  let segments = [];
+  let match;
+  let lastIndex = 0;
+  pattern.lastIndex = 0;
+
+  while (match = pattern.exec(string)) {
+	if (match.index > lastIndex) {
+	  segments.push(string.substring(lastIndex, match.index));
+	}
+	segments.push({ match });
+	lastIndex = match.index + match[0].length;
+  }
+  if (lastIndex < string.length) {
+	segments.push(string.substr(lastIndex));
+  }
+  return segments;
+};