1 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/apt-pkg/contrib/strutl.cc b/apt-pkg/contrib/strutl.cc
index 819d50de0..508af8922 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/contrib/strutl.cc
+++ b/apt-pkg/contrib/strutl.cc
@@ -1123,19 +1123,27 @@ vector<string> VectorizeString(string const &haystack, char const &split)
 /* This can be used to split a given string up into a vector of strings
  * The seperator is a string
  */
-vector<string> StringSplit(string const &s, std::string const &sep)
+vector<string> StringSplit(string const &s, std::string const &sep,
+                           unsigned int maxsplit)
 {
    vector<string> split;
    size_t start, pos;
-   start = pos = 0;
+
    if(sep.size() == 0)
       return split;
-   
+
+   start = pos = 0;
    do {
       pos = s.find(sep, start);
       split.push_back(s.substr(start, pos-start));
-      if(pos != string::npos)
-         start = pos+sep.size();
+      
+      // deal with the max-split
+      if(maxsplit > 0 && split.size() >= maxsplit)
+      {
+         split[split.size()-1] = s.substr(start);
+         break;
+      }
+      start = pos+sep.size();
    } while (pos != string::npos);
    return split;
 }