Lua divided into words

Question

I have a line in lua.

This is a [a-zA-Z0-9] + heap, separated by a space (1 or more).

How to take a row and split it into a row table?

Answer 1

s = "foo bar 123" words = {} for word in s:gmatch("%w+") do table.insert(words, word) end 

Answer 2

 s="How do I take the string and split it into a table of strings?" for w in s:gmatch("%S+") do print(w) end