Programming-Idioms

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2016-09-27, 15:57:17

2016-11-05, 03:16:00

Idiom #49 Split a space-separated string

Build list chunks consisting in substrings of input string s, separated by one or more space characters.

Build list chunks consisting in substrings of input string s, separated by one or more space characters.

chunks = {}
for substring in s:gmatch("%S+") do
   table.insert(chunks, substring)
end

create an iterator (s.gmatch function) that match everything except the delimiter

http://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#pdf-string.gmatch

http://lua-users.org/wiki/SplitJoin

http://codepad.org/SomCSysg

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