Mudlet: match repeatedly on same line and pass matches as arguments?

I'm wanting to make a trigger that will fire on qw and load all the names into a table. The regex for it is (\w+)\,\s and I set it to match all occurrences in a line. I then tried having it execute table.insert(myTable, matches[2]) but this only give me a table with 1 element. How do I make it so that it will run table.insert() for each match?

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  • KlendathuKlendathu Eye of the Storm
    Easiest thing to do is grab matches[1], which is the entire string, then parse that into the table, rather than trying to directly parse the output:
    splitAtComma = function(str)
    myTable = {}
    str = tostring(str:gsub(",",""))
    if string.find(str," ") then
    for word in string.gmatch(str, "%a+") do
    table.insert(myTable,word)
    end
    end
    end

    Using the code above, you can have your trigger line with the following in the white box:

    splitAtComma(matches[1])

    Simples!



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  • You can also use the 'match all' option in the trigger, then all matches will be stored in the matches table.
  • edited September 2015
    Klendathu said:
    Easiest thing to do is grab matches[1], which is the entire string, then parse that into the table, rather than trying to directly parse the output:
    splitAtComma = function(str)
    myTable = {}
    str = tostring(str:gsub(",",""))
    if string.find(str," ") then
    for word in string.gmatch(str, "%a+") do
    table.insert(myTable,word)
    end
    end
    end

    Using the code above, you can have your trigger line with the following in the white box:

    splitAtComma(matches[1])

    Simples!

    Why wouldn't you just want to:

    myTable = string.split(matches[1], ", ")

    ? Then have a check to replace the last entry of "and <name>" with just name.
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