Due to the minimalist nature of Lua, the standard library for
string does not contain commonly used methods like
split. However, the module
string_ext contains them. Below is a snippet on how to use the
split method. The point to consider here is the module we have to import in order for the method to work correctly. Importing only the
string_ext module is not enough. We have to import
list and
strbuf modules as well.
require("string_ext")
require("list")
require("strbuf")
print(string.split("Hello World", " ")) -- outputs {1=Hello,2=World}