lua split into words

Question

I have a string in lua.

It's a bunch of [a-zA-Z0-9]+ separated by a number (1 or more) spaces.

How do I take the string and split it into a table of strings?

Thanks!

Answer 1

s="How do I take the string and split it into a table of strings?"
for w in s:gmatch("%S+") do print(w) end

Answer 2

s = "foo bar 123"
words = {}
for word in s:gmatch("%w+") do table.insert(words, word) end