For some reason my numbers are cut off in the fellow example. If someone knows what is causing this, or has a better pattern please share.
function Split(String, Pattern)
local Res = {}
for Query in string.gmatch(String, Pattern) do
table.insert(Res, Query)
end
return Res
end
local Table = Split('Hello world > User_-1', '[^.->]+')
for i,v in pairs(Table) do
print(v)
end
Output :
Should be:
Hyphens in character sets in pattern matching indicate ranges of characters, for example "[A-Z]" would mean any capital letter.
It happens to be that . precedes the numbers and is followed by < = >, causing your problem.
Move the hyphen to the end or beginning of the range and it will indicate that it is a normal hyphen and not indicating a character range.
Though it also seems just "[^>]" would be sufficient, though I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to do here because you haven't explained.
Your snippet also has an unnecessary do on line 1.
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