Is it possible to convert a string into a table?

Okay, so I have a custom chat and when the user chats something it sends this message to the chat area. Everything works fine and how I want it to work for now but my next step is creating some sort of way to filter out rude words from even being sent. I already have spam prevention kinda but my main focus is stopping inappropriate words.

Now when I first thought to my self, how am I gonna do this bman the first idea that came to my mind is some how saving every word in the String into a table. My issue is, how would I seperate a string value into a table value when separating the spaces. Now I'll go in depth to what I mean if you are still confused, basically when the user chats something I want it to check this message before sending it. It will go through every word in this sentence a.k.a String. I want it to somehow save this String to a table word by word, so it would remove the spaces and only save the words. For example, a string value like this: "Hello my name is Bman" would then be saved to the table like this {"Hello", "my", "name", "is", "Bman"}. This way I can create a loop that scans through all the table values and if any of the table values equals one of the inappropriate words I will have defined somewhere else it will prevent the user from sending the message.

So to sum that all up, I need some sort of information about how to convert a String like this: "Hello my name is Bman" to this: local table = {"Hello", "my", "name", "is", "Bman"}

If you have any questions just ask. Wiki links ARE useful, if you found a link to somewhere describing it I would really love this, I searched all over the internet but I either missed it or could not find exactly what I was looking for!

Here is the code, it is a localscript found in a ScreenGui inside StarterGui:

repeat wait() until game.Players.LocalPlayer
wait(1)
local StarterGui = game:GetService('StarterGui')
StarterGui:SetCoreGuiEnabled(Enum.CoreGuiType.Chat, false)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
--Variables
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local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Mouse = Player:GetMouse()
local lastMessage
local chatBar = script.Parent.ChatBar
local cantChat = false
_G.moving = false
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
--Link to custom events
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local playerChatted = game.ReplicatedStorage.playerChatted
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
--Remote Functions
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local sendChatMessage = game.ReplicatedStorage.sendChatMessage
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
--Functions
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function createCountDown(timeamt)
    repeat wait(1)
        timeamt = timeamt-1
    until timeamt == 0
end

function spamAlert()
    local normalcolor = chatBar.BackgroundColor3
    local brickcolor = BrickColor.new("Really red") --Create our new BrickColor
    local color = brickcolor.Color
    chatBar.BackgroundColor3 = color
    chatBar.Text = "Please don't repeat the same message!"
    cantChat = true
    local countdown = createCountDown(3)
    cantChat = false
    chatBar.BackgroundColor3 = normalcolor
    chatBar.Text = "Type / to chat or click this bar!"
end

function safeChatCheck(msg)
    local messageSafe
    if (lastMessage ~= nil) and (msg == lastMessage) then
        spamAlert()
        messageSafe = false
    else
        messageSafe = true
    end

    return messageSafe
end

function createChatLine()
    local textlabel = Instance.new("TextLabel")
    textlabel.BackgroundTransparency = 1
    textlabel.TextXAlignment = "Left"
    textlabel.Size = UDim2.new(1,0,.1,0)
    textlabel.Position = UDim2.new(0,0,0.76,0)
    textlabel.Name = "chatbar"
    return textlabel
end
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
--Global Functions
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function _G.addMessage(player, chat)
    if (_G.moving == true) then
        repeat wait() until _G.moving == false
    end
    _G.moving = true
    print(_G.moving)
    for _, chatbars in pairs (script.Parent.chatFrame:GetChildren()) do
        if (chatbars.ClassName == "TextLabel") then
            chatbars:TweenPosition(UDim2.new(0,0,chatbars.Position.Y.Scale-.1,0), "Out", "Quad", .5, true)
            wait()      
        end
    end
    local chatbar = createChatLine()
    chatbar.Parent = script.Parent.chatFrame
    chatbar.Text = player.Name .. ": " .. chat
    _G.moving = false
end

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--Events
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Mouse.KeyDown:connect(function(Key)
    if (Key == string.char(13)) then
        if (cantChat == true) then
            return
        end
        if (script.Parent.ChatBar.Text == "Type / to chat or click this bar!") or (script.Parent.ChatBar.Text == "Please don't repeat the same message!") then
            return;
        end
        local checkMsg = safeChatCheck(script.Parent.ChatBar.Text)
        if (checkMsg == true) then
            sendChatMessage:InvokeServer(script.Parent.ChatBar.Text)
            script.Parent.ChatBar.Text = "Type / to chat or click this bar!"
        end
    end
end)

Mouse.KeyDown:connect(function(Key)
    if (cantChat == true) then
        return
    end
    if Key:lower() == "/" then
        script.Parent.ChatBar:CaptureFocus()
    end
end)
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--Custom Events Listener
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playerChatted.OnClientEvent:connect(function(player, msg)
    _G.addMessage(player, msg)
    lastMessage = msg
end)