string.split

Splits a string into a table, matching on specific delimiters.

Usage

string.split(my_string, delimiters)

Arguments

Name	Type	Description
`my_string`	`string`	String to split.
`delimiters`	`string`	String whose individual characteres are used as delimiters.

Returns

Name	Type	Description
`split_result`	`table`	List of components after the split.

Examples

local sentence = "Welcome to my shop, adventurer!";
local words = sentence:split(" ,!");
for _, word in ipairs(words) do
  -- Sequentially prints "welcome", "to", "my", "shop" and "adventurer"
  print(word);
end