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This examples takes any console text input and splits it into parts.
This examples takes any console text input and splits it into parts.
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<syntaxhighlight lang="lua">
function onConsole ( player, text )
function onConsole ( text )
     -- Grab the table of tokens
     -- Grab the table of tokens
     splittext = split ( text, 32 )
     splittext = split ( text, 32 )
     -- for each token there..
     -- for each token there...
     for splitKey, splitVal in ipairs(splittext) do
     for splitKey, splitVal in ipairs(splittext) do
         -- output the index and token
         -- output the index and token
         outputChatBox ( "key: " .. splitKey .. " val: " .. splitVal )
         outputChatBox ( splitKey .. ": " .. splitVal )
     end
     end
end
end
addEventHandler ( "onConsole", getRootElement ( ), onConsole )
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==See Also==
==See Also==
{{Utility functions}}
{{Utility functions}}

Revision as of 18:50, 15 August 2007

This function splits a string into sub-strings. You specify a character that will act as a separating character; this will determine where to split the sub-strings. For example, it can split the string "Hello World" into two strings containing the two words, by spliting using a space as a seperating character.

Note: You can use the function gettok to retrieve a single token from the string at a specific index. This may be faster for one-off lookups, but considerably slower if you are going to check each token in a long string.

Syntax

table split ( string stringToSplit, int separatingChar )

Required Arguments

  • stringToSplit The string you wish to split into parts.
  • separatingChar The character you want to use to split (ASCII number)

Returns

Returns a table of the sub-strings.

Example

This examples takes any console text input and splits it into parts.

function onConsole ( text )
    -- Grab the table of tokens
    splittext = split ( text, 32 )
    -- for each token there...
    for splitKey, splitVal in ipairs(splittext) do
        -- output the index and token
        outputChatBox ( splitKey .. ": " .. splitVal )
    end
end
addEventHandler ( "onConsole", getRootElement ( ), onConsole )

See Also