Split

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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.

Syntax

table split ( string stringToSplit, string separatingChar )

Required Arguments

  • stringToSplit The string you wish to split into parts.
  • separatingChar The character you want to use to split

Returns

Returns a table of the sub-strings.

Example

This examples takes any console text input and splits it into parts. 

function onConsole ( player, text )
    splittext = split ( text, 32 ) -- Grab the table of tokens
    for splitKey, splitVal in splittext do -- for each token there..
        outputChatBox ( "key: " .. splitKey .. " val: " .. splitVal ) -- output the index and token
    end
end

See Also


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