RE: split method?

[Dave Collins <Dave.Collins@...>]

Thanks Wesley, I'm going to use yours after all. Despite being a "black box", it does work.

Dave

>Wesley Smith:
>I think this function could be a lot simpler.  string.gmatch is more
>suited to this type of problem than string.find IMHO:
>
>local myDateString = "2011-06-21"
>
>function string:split(delim)
>	local res = {}
>	for v in self:gmatch(string.format("([^%s]+)%s?", delim, delim)) do
>		res[#res+1] = v
>	end
>	return res
>end
>
>local myDateTbl = myDateString.split(myDateString,"-")
>print(unpack(myDateTbl))