Minetest-WorldEditAdditions/worldeditadditions/utils/parse/map.lua

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--- Parses a map of key-value pairs into a table.
-- For example, "count 25000 speed 0.8 rate_erosion 0.006 doawesome true" would be parsed into
-- the following table: { count = 25000, speed = 0.8, rate_erosion = 0.006, doawesome = true }.
-- @param params_text string The string to parse.
-- @returns table A table of key-value pairs parsed out from the given string.
function worldeditadditions.parse.map(params_text)
local result = {}
local parts = worldeditadditions.split(params_text, "%s+", false)
local last_key = nil
for i, part in ipairs(parts) do
if i % 2 == 0 then -- Lua starts at 1 :-/
-- Try converting to a number to see if it works
local part_converted = tonumber(part)
if as_number == nil then part_converted = part end
-- Look for bools
if part_converted == "true" then part_converted = true end
if part_converted == "false" then part_converted = false end
result[last_key] = part
else
last_key = part
end
end
return true, result
end