How to split complex strings in corona SDK

This session will teach you about splitting complex string of data separated with some characters. Lets assume that you have a string as House;home,40|Bed,20|Mirror,10. Now we will show you how to split each word and assigning each to a table.

  local myString = "House;home,40|Bed,20|Mirror,10"

  local myTable = {}

  for word in string.gmatch(myString, '([^,|]+)') do

     -- 'myTable' contains the data you need

    myTable[#myTable+1]=word print( myTable[#myTable] )

   end

Hence you will get the items as each table elements, as:

  

  myTable[1] = House

  myTable[2] = home

  myTable[3] = 40

  myTable[4] = Bed

  myTable[5] = 20

  myTable[6] = Mirror

  myTable[7] = 10