How to isolate non english words separated by spaces in Lua?
问题 I have this string "Hello there, this is some line-aa." how to slice it into an array like this? Hello there, this is some line-aa. this is what I have tried so far function sliceSpaces(arg) local list = {} for k in arg:gmatch("%w+") do print(k) table.insert(list, k) end return list end local sentence = "مرحبا يا اخوتي" print("sliceSpaces") print(sliceSpaces(sentence)) this code works for English text , but not for arabic, how can I make it work for arabic too? 回答1: Lua strings are sequences