From 868baff3981da75811d25861ee306f07202046a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Toni Gundogdu <legatvs@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:33:17 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] quvi/util: Add the `tokenize' function

Signed-off-by: Toni Gundogdu <legatvs@gmail.com>
---
 share/common/quvi/util.lua | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/share/common/quvi/util.lua b/share/common/quvi/util.lua
index 177d638..4601fde 100644
--- a/share/common/quvi/util.lua
+++ b/share/common/quvi/util.lua
@@ -142,6 +142,28 @@ function M.trim(s)
   return s:gsub('(.)%s+$', '%1')
 end
 
+--[[
+Tokenize a string.
+Parameters:
+  s   .. String to tokenize
+  sep .. Separator
+Returns:
+  Tokenized items in a table.
+]]--
+function M.tokenize(s,sep) -- Based on http://lua-users.org/wiki/SplitJoin
+  local sep, fields = sep or ':', {}
+  local pattern = string.format('([^%s]+)', sep)
+                    s:gsub(pattern, function(c) fields[#fields+1] = c
+                  end)
+  return fields
+end
+
+-- Uncomment to test
+--[[
+package.path = package.path .. ';../?.lua'
+for _,v in pairs(M.tokenize('a,b,c,d,e',',')) do print(v) end
+]]--
+
 return M
 
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