Question

    testA = "test.test test.test"
    local t1 = {}
    for X in string.gfind (testA, "[^ ]+") do
    table.insert (t1 ,X)
    end
    local first = table.concat(t1, "", 1, 1);

    --output/first test.test

    testA = "11.11.11.11 test.test"
    local t2 = {}
    for X in string.gfind (testA, "[^ ]+") do
    table.insert (t2 ,X)
    end
    local first = table.concat(t2, "", 1, 1);

    --output/first 11.11.11.11

    testA = "100.100.100.100  test.test"
    local t3 = {}
    for X in string.gfind (testA, "[^ ]+") do
    table.insert (t3 ,X)
    end
    local first = table.concat(t3, "", 1, 1);

    --output/first 100.100.100.100    test.test

Does anyone know why the 3rd item wont split with gfind? , cant figure out why
it works for two strings but not the third.

Answer 1

Your problem is that a tab character is not the same thing as a space. If you want to skip all whitespace characters, you need to actually skip whitespace characters, not just regular space:

string.gfind (testA, "[%S]+")