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I've googled and I'm just not getting it. Seems like such a simple function, but of course Lua doesn't have it.
In Python I would do
string = "cat,dog" one, two = string.split(",") and then I would have two variables, one = cat. two = dog
How do I do this in Lua!?
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A very simple example of a split function in Lua is to make use of the gmatch() function and then pass a pattern which we want to separate the string upon.
Answer: Use the split() Method You can use the JavaScript split() method to split a string using a specific separator such as comma ( , ), space, etc. If separator is an empty string, the string is converted to an array of characters.
You can use the Python string split() function to split a string (by a delimiter) into a list of strings. To split a string by comma in Python, pass the comma character "," as a delimiter to the split() function. It returns a list of strings resulting from splitting the original string on the occurrences of "," .
Try this
str = 'cat,dog' for word in string.gmatch(str, '([^,]+)') do print(word) end '[^,]' means "everything but the comma, the + sign means "one or more characters". The parenthesis create a capture (not really needed in this case).
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If you can use libraries, the answer is (as often in Lua) to use Penlight.
If Penlight is too heavy for you and you just want to split a string with a single comma like in your example, you can do something like this:
string = "cat,dog" one, two = string:match("([^,]+),([^,]+)") If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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