SystemVerilog Parse Function

This function will parse through a string in, and separate out terms separated by separated, returning the resulting terms in the out array.

function automatic void parse (
  output string out [],
  input string in,
  input byte separator = "|"
);

  automatic int index [$];
  foreach (in[i]) begin
    if (in[i] == separator) begin
      index.push_back(i-1);
      index.push_back(i+1);
    end
  end
  index.push_front(0);
  index.push_back(in.len()-1);
  
  out = new[index.size()/2];
  foreach (out[i]) begin
    out[i] = in.substr(index[2*i], index[2*i+1]);
  end

endfunction