Re: Lua way to do this code

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

> Firstly, i hope that this is proper place for my small question

Sure is. Everyone is welcome.
 
> So i kindly ask: how would you do this iteration?
> 
>     local ret = {}
>     for p in string.explode(str, ";") do
>         local k,v = string.gmatch(p, "([xyz])=(%d+)")()
>         ret[k] = tonumber(v)
>     end

string.explode is not a standard Lua function but I can image what it'd do.
string.gmatch is not what you want here: you want string.match.
string.gmatch is for loops, like the one below which is what I'd write
for this task:

      for k,v in string.gmatch(str,"([xyz])=(%d+)") do
        ret[k] = tonumber(v)
      end

The point is that there is no need to split str before doing the match.