6 replies to this topic

[PixelFox]

Is there a way to split lines in a sentence or words in a line into a table?
e.x
local Sentence = "Hello, I like things."
local SentenceSplit = {String.Split(Sentence)}
print(SentenceSplitz[])
print(SentenceSplit[2])
- Thanks, Lightning

[KingofGamesYami]

Look at string.gmatch and patterns, you can accomplish this with those.

Sentance -> words

local s = "Hello, I like things." )
local words = {}
for word in s:gmatch( "%S+" ) do
  words[ #words + 1 ] = word
end
print( words[ 1 ] ) --#should print "Hello,"

[SquidDev]

I would suggesting looking at some of the implementations here.

The easiest is:

function string.split(str, sep)
  return {str:match((str:gsub("[^"..sep.."]*?"..sep, "([^"..sep.."]*?)"..sep)))}
end

To understand this I would suggest looking at Lua patterns.

Edit: Beat me to it Yami!

Edited by SquidDev, 20 January 2015 - 10:02 PM.

[PixelFox]

Squid Dev, You're Idea is much better IMO, It's a function and can be changed, And it's just Simple.

[Lyqyd]

Uh, you could easily make a function out of the gmatch method, and it's a significantly better way to do it.

[PixelFox]

Lyqyd, I don't know how to use gmatch. So it wouldn't help me.

[Dragon53535]

KingofGamesYami, on 20 January 2015 - 10:01 PM, said:

Look at string.gmatch and patterns, you can accomplish this with those.

Sentance -> words

local s = "Hello, I like things." )
local words = {}
for word in s:gmatch( "%S+" ) do
  words[ #words + 1 ] = word
end
print( words[ 1 ] ) --#should print "Hello,"

local function splitString(str)
  local words = {}
  for word in str:gmatch( "%S+" ) do
	words[ #words + 1 ] = word
  end
  return words
end

*GASP* It's suddenly a function

Edited by Dragon53535, 21 January 2015 - 08:56 AM.