diff --git a/doc/areas/string.txt b/doc/areas/string.txt
index a2c6e21..23d8efc 100644
--- a/doc/areas/string.txt
+++ b/doc/areas/string.txt
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ first
 join
 nibble
 split
+split_space
 split_utf8
 replace
 to_lower
diff --git a/doc/pages/NewFile b/doc/pages/NewFile
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29..0000000
diff --git a/doc/pages/split.txt b/doc/pages/split.txt
index 0f69a71..6e05b3d 100644
--- a/doc/pages/split.txt
+++ b/doc/pages/split.txt
@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
 :sig
 StringList split(String str, String delim)
-StringList split(String str)
-
 
 :params
 str : string to be split
-delim : optional, delimiter (if omitted, any sequence of whitespace characters will count as a delimiter)
+delim : delimiter
 return value : a list of strings
 
 :desc
diff --git a/doc/pages/split_space.txt b/doc/pages/split_space.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4b943ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/pages/split_space.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+:sig
+StringList split_space(String str)
+
+:params
+str : string to be split
+return value : a list of strings
+
+:desc
+Splits 'str' into multiple strings along any whitespace characters (multiple whitespace characters count as one).
+
+:see
+>string