Editing WoW:API strsplit

{{wowapi}} __NOTOC__

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Splits a string using a delimiter
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 s1, s2, s3 ... sn = strsplit("delimiter", "subject")


== Arguments ==
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:(delimiter, subject)

:;delimiter : String - Delimiter
:;subejct : String - String to split


== Returns ==
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A list of strings. Not a table.

== Example ==
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 local a, b, c = strsplit(",", "a b c")

<big>'''Result'''</big>
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 a = "a"
 b = "b"
 c = "c"

== Details ==

Again, note that the return from strsplit is a list of values, not a table. To get a table, use e.g.:
 local tbl = { strsplit(delimiter, subject) }


Also note that strsplit uses a raw string as delimited, not a pattern, so it's not particularily well-suited for e.g. commandline arguments, where it should be ok to use multiple spaces. To extract whitespace-separated arguments, you can use e.g.
 local tbl = {}
 for v in string.gmatch(" this   has     lots of   space   ", "[^ ]+") do
   tinsert(tbl, v)
 end