19 lines
723 B
MoonScript
19 lines
723 B
MoonScript
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-- Splits the input string into an array of non-whitespace substrings.
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--
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-- This function uses Lua's pattern matching to iterate over the provided
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-- string `s` and collects each contiguous sequence of non-whitespace
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-- characters into a new table. If the input is not a string, the function
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-- raises an error.
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--
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-- @param s string: The string to be split. Must be a valid string.
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-- @return table: An array of substrings obtained by splitting `s` on whitespace.
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-- @raise error if the input parameter `s` is not a string.
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export split = (s) ->
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unless type(s) == "string"
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error "split() requires a string parameter"
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chunks = {}
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for substr in string.gmatch s, '%S+'
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table.insert chunks, substr
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chunks
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