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string.ToTable#511933
<function name="ToTable" parent="string" type="libraryfunc">⤶
<description>⤶
Splits the string into characters and creates a sequential table of characters.⤶
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<warning>As a result of the encoding, non-ASCII characters will be split into more than one character in the output table. Each character value in the output table will always be 1 byte.</warning>⤶
</description>⤶
<realm>Shared and Menu</realm>⤶
<file line="7">lua/includes/extensions/string.lua</file>⤶
<args>⤶
<arg name="str" type="string">The string you'll turn into a table.</arg>⤶
</args>⤶
<rets>⤶
<ret name="" type="table">A sequential table where each value is a character from the given string</ret>⤶
</rets>⤶
</function>⤶
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<example>⤶
<description>Demonstrates the use of this function.</description>⤶
<code>⤶
local mystring = "text"⤶
PrintTable(string.ToTable(mystring))⤶
</code>⤶
<outputfixedwidth>Fixed width</outputfixedwidth>⤶
<output>⤶
1 = t⤶
2 = e⤶
3 = x⤶
4 = t⤶
</output>⤶
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</example>⤶
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⤶
<example>⤶
<description>Demonstrates how this function behaves with non-ASCII characters - in this case, Greek letters.</description>⤶
<code>⤶
for k,v in ipairs(string.ToTable("abcd αβγδ")) do⤶
print(k, bit.tohex(string.byte(v)), v)⤶
end⤶
</code>⤶
<outputfixedwidth>Fixed width</outputfixedwidth>⤶
<output>⤶
1 00000061 a⤶
2 00000062 b⤶
3 00000063 c⤶
4 00000064 d⤶
5 00000020 ⤶
6 000000ce ?⤶
7 000000b1 ?⤶
8 000000ce ?⤶
9 000000b2 ?⤶
10 000000ce ?⤶
11 000000b3 ?⤶
12 000000ce ?⤶
13 000000b4 ?⤶
</output>⤶
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</example>