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This function splits a string into sub-strings. You specify a character that will act as a separating character; this will determine where to split the sub-strings.  
{{Server client function}}
This function splits a string into substrings. You specify a character that will act as a separating character; this will determine where to split the sub-strings. For example, it can split the string "Hello World" into two strings containing the two words, by spliting using a space as a separator.


==Returns==
'''Note:''' You can use the function [[gettok]] to retrieve a single token from the string at a specific index. This may be faster for one-off lookups, but considerably slower if you are going to check each token in a long string.
Returns a table of the sub-strings.


==Syntax==
==Syntax==
<syntaxhighlight lang="lua">table split ( string, separatingchar )</syntaxhighlight>
<syntaxhighlight lang="lua">table split ( string stringToSplit, string / int separatingChar )</syntaxhighlight>
 
===Required Arguments===
* '''stringToSplit''' The string you wish to split into parts.
* '''separatingChar''' A string of the character you want to split, or the [[ASCII|ASCII number]] representing the character you want to use to split. If you want to split a string at multiple characters see [[splitMultiple]]
 
===Returns===
Returns a ''table'' of substrings split from the original string if successful, ''false'' otherwise.
 
{{note|Unicode characters work but when combined with others do not. E.g: #split("a€cb†", "€") returns 3 but #split("a€cb", "€") returns 2.
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{{note|You can't use same char twice as a separator. Eg.:  ||, ||| are the same as |.
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==Example==
==Example==
<section name="Server" class="server" show="true">
This example gives the specified weapons to the given player, while the weapons are a string in the form: 'weaponId,ammo;weaponId2,ammo2;weaponId3,ammo3;..'. This is especially for data read from a .map file attribute.
<syntaxhighlight lang="lua">
<syntaxhighlight lang="lua">
function onConsole ( player, text )
function giveWeapons(player, weaponsString)
  splittext = split ( text, 32 ) -- Grab the table of tokens
local weaponsTable = split(weaponsString, ';') --split the string by the semi colon
    for splitKey, splitVal in splittext do -- for each token there..
for k,v in ipairs(weaponsTable) do --for all the split values do
      outputChatBox ( "key: " .. splitKey .. " val: " .. splitVal ) -- output the index and token
weaponId = gettok(v, 1, string.byte(',')) --get the weapon ID using gettok, retrieve the first token
    end
weaponAmmo = gettok(v, 2, ",") --get the ammo using gettok, retrieve the second token
if (weaponId and weaponAmmo) then --if neither of them is invalid
giveWeapon(player, weaponId, weaponAmmo) --give the player the weapons
end
end
end
end
</syntaxhighlight>
</syntaxhighlight>
</section>


==See Also==
==See Also==
{{Utility functions}}
{{Utility functions}}

Latest revision as of 16:59, 15 November 2023

This function splits a string into substrings. You specify a character that will act as a separating character; this will determine where to split the sub-strings. For example, it can split the string "Hello World" into two strings containing the two words, by spliting using a space as a separator.

Note: You can use the function gettok to retrieve a single token from the string at a specific index. This may be faster for one-off lookups, but considerably slower if you are going to check each token in a long string.

Syntax

table split ( string stringToSplit, string / int separatingChar )

Required Arguments

  • stringToSplit The string you wish to split into parts.
  • separatingChar A string of the character you want to split, or the ASCII number representing the character you want to use to split. If you want to split a string at multiple characters see splitMultiple

Returns

Returns a table of substrings split from the original string if successful, false otherwise.

[[{{{image}}}|link=|]] Note: Unicode characters work but when combined with others do not. E.g: #split("a€cb†", "€") returns 3 but #split("a€cb", "€") returns 2.


[[{{{image}}}|link=|]] Note: You can't use same char twice as a separator. Eg.:

Example

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Server

This example gives the specified weapons to the given player, while the weapons are a string in the form: 'weaponId,ammo;weaponId2,ammo2;weaponId3,ammo3;..'. This is especially for data read from a .map file attribute. 

function giveWeapons(player, weaponsString)
	local weaponsTable = split(weaponsString, ';') --split the string by the semi colon
	for k,v in ipairs(weaponsTable) do --for all the split values do
		weaponId = gettok(v, 1, string.byte(',')) --get the weapon ID using gettok, retrieve the first token
		weaponAmmo = gettok(v, 2, ",") --get the ammo using gettok, retrieve the second token
		if (weaponId and weaponAmmo) then --if neither of them is invalid
			giveWeapon(player, weaponId, weaponAmmo) --give the player the weapons
		end
	end
end

See Also


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