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Miles Bader wrote:
Though in many cases, you don't really need split, e.g. something like
the following is actually cleaner than doing a split and iterating over
the resulting table:
for field in string.gmatch (STRING, "[^ \t\n]+") do
.... use field ...
end
And what if the fields are delimited by, say, "<delim>" ?The rule of thumb is to use gmatch when fields are easier to express with regexp than delimiters, otherwise use split (provided it's available :) ).
-- Shmuel