Minetest-WorldEditAdditions/worldeditadditions/utils/strings/tochars.lua
2021-06-03 10:02:17 -07:00

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--- Split into table of characters.
-- @param text string The string to iterate over
-- @param sort bool Sort characters
-- @param rem_dups bool Remove duplicate characters
-- @returns table A sequence table containing the substrings
function worldeditadditions.tochars(text,sort,rem_dups)
--function tochars(text,s,d)
t, set = {}, {}
if rem_dups then
text:gsub(".",function(c) set[c] = true end)
for k,v in pairs(set) do table.insert(t,k) end
else
text:gsub(".",function(c) table.insert(t,c) end)
end
if sort then table.sort(t) end
return t
end