Re: Convert a string to table without changing the order of the items

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

> I need to convert this to a table but the order of the data must stay the same.

Try	s:gsub('%["(%w+)"%]="(.-)",',print)
Replace print with a suitable function.

If the data file has more than one table, it'll take a little more work.