Re: Extracting list of items from line?

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

On 18/04/2011 12:19, Gilles Ganault wrote:
> Also, I'm confused about when to use : and ., eg. should I use
> execs:read() or execs.read()?

execs is an object (i.e. userdata), thus execs:read()

Try the following:

for line in io.lines("execs.txt") do
  local libs = line:match(" (.*)")
  if not libs then error("Space not found in " .. line) end
  for lib in libs:gmatch("[^,]+") do print(lib) end
  print("----")
end

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Shmuel