Despite being linked on the website, no one should consider Lua Users wiki as any sort of canonical source of information. If you have questions use the mailing

Despite being linked on the website, no one should consider Lua Users wiki as any sort of canonical source of information. If you have questions use the mailing list, not that splitting a string is something that should require too much thinking, nor should we pretend there aren't a handful of mature utility libraries should you not be inclined to write a few lines of code yourself.