*
     * @param value the string to be split; if {@code null}, the method returns an empty stream
     * @param regex the regular expression to use for splitting the string
     * @return a stream of substrings resulting from splitting the input string, or an empty stream if the input is {@code null}
     */
    public static StreamOf<String> split(final String value, final String regex) {

 * {@code escape(s.substring(0, n)) + escape(s.substring(n))} for arbitrary {@code n}. This is
 * because of the possibility of splitting a surrogate pair. The only case in which it is safe to
 * escape strings and concatenate the results is if you can rule out this possibility, either by
 * splitting an existing long string into short strings adaptively around {@linkplain

#       options in "$@", and eventually passing that to Java.
#
#       Where the inherited environment variables (DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS,
#       and GRADLE_OPTS) rely on word-splitting, this is performed explicitly;
#       see the in-line comments for details.
#
#       There are tweaks for specific operating systems such as AIX, CygWin,
#       Darwin, MinGW, and NonStop.
#

        ) {
          ranges.removeAt(j)
        } else {
          break@mergeAdjacent
        }
      }
    }
    i++
  }
  return ranges
}

/**
 * Returns a copy of [mappings], splitting to ensure that each mapping is entirely contained within
 * a single section.
 */
internal fun withoutSectionSpans(mappings: List<Mapping>): List<Mapping> {
  val result = mutableListOf<Mapping>()