Re: (newbie) Lua equivalent of split() in perl?

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

On 7-Oct-05, at 11:50 PM, Gregory Benjamin wrote:

> How does one do the equivalent of
> the following Perl code:
>
> ($name,$birthyear,$sex) = split();
>
> when presented with a line of input text like:
>
> "jane 2000 f"
>
> which results in $name = "jane", $birthyear = 2000, $sex = "f"
>
> in Lua 5.0?

Simple solution:

local _, _, name, birthyear, sex = string.find(line, 
"(%S+)%s+(%S+)%s+(.*)")

More examples on the wiki: http://lua-users.org/wiki/StringRecipes