Add note about multiple occurences of separator and add example using string.gmatch
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== Details == | == Details == | ||
To get a table use: | 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) } | 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 | |||