Creating arrays in Lua from list returned by gmatch

arrays, lua, lua-patterns, lua-table, string

Solution

Declare the table before, and add the elements in the loop like this:

local t = {}
for i in S:gmatch("([^,%s]+)") do  
    t[#t + 1] = i
end 

The pattern `[^,%s]+` matches one or more non-comma, non-space characters.

Problem

I am programming in Lua and so far I have this. ``` S=tostring(M[i].AllSegmentsList) --it returns "MSH, PID" for i in string.gmatch(S, ",") do --I have ", " as delimiter t= {} --Now, I want the values returned by delimiter to be added into an array. end ``` How can I do that.

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