<function name="ToTable" parent="string" type="libraryfunc"> <description> Splits the string into characters and creates a sequential table of characters. <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> <file line="8-L19">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> <example> <description>Demonstrates the use of this function.</description> <code> local mystring = "text" PrintTable( string.ToTable( mystring ) ) </code> <output> ``` 1 = t 2 = e 3 = x 4 = t ``` </output> </example> <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> <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> </example>