Allow *
, ?
, and {0,...}
variants in StringSplit in non-empty match situations
#6959
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Fixes #4884.
This enables
*
,?
as well as{0,}
and{0,n}
in regular expressions that used in StringSplit in most circumstances aside from zero-width match cases (covered by #6958) to run on the GPU.Because zero-width matches are a somewhat rare edge case that need to be handled on the output side, in favor of usability, this PR reduces that to be a separate edge case that can fallback on its own.