split

Returns	table
Prototype	string.split(string input, string delimiter[, boolean compress])
Description	Splits the input string by a delimiter, and optionally removes any empty values (compress).

Examples

Basic example

string.split("hello|how|are|you||", "|", true)
-- returns { 1 = "hello", 2 = "how", 3 = "are", 4 = "you", 5 = "" }
string.split("hello|how|are|you||", "|", false)
-- returns { 1 = "hello", 2 = "how", 3 = "are", 4 = "you", 5 = "", 6 = "" }

Kick a specified player

Foo = function(args)
	local arguments = string.split(args.text, " ", true) -- split the player's chat message by spaces
	
	if table.count(arguments) == 2 then -- make sure that there's at least two values in the table
		if arguments[1] == "!kick" then -- then ensure that we're actually trying to kick someone
			local plr = Player.Match(arguments[2]) -- get a list of all the players that match the input (second argument)

			if table.count(plr) > 1 then -- if we find more than one player, ask the person who ran the command to be more specific
				local playerlist = ""
				for k, p in pairs(plr) do
					playerlist = playerlist..p:GetName()
					if k ~= table.count(plr) then -- don't append a comma if we don't need to
						playerlist = playerlist..", "  
					end
				end

				args.player:SendChatMessage("Multiple players found, be more specific: "..playerlist, Color(255,0,0))
			else
				if plr[1] ~= nil then
					plr[1]:Kick()
				else
					args.player:SendChatMessage("Sorry, could not find "..arguments[2], Color(255,0,0))
				end
			end
		end
	end
end
 
Events:Subscribe("PlayerChat", Foo)
-- args.text = "!kick jmazouri"
-- arguments = { 1 = "!kick", 2 = "jmazouri" }

Additional Notes

This method is currently bugged, as despite "compress" being set to true, it still returns an empty value if the delimiter is present at the end of the input string (as shown in the examples).