WoW API: strsplit

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Splits a string using a delimiter

s1, s2, s3 ... sn = strsplit("delimiter", "subject")

Arguments

(delimiter, subject)

delimiter

String - Delimiter

subject

String - String to split

Returns

A list of strings. Not a table.

Example

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

Result

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