Regular Expression Help

[GreenAvoro]

This is a problem I'm having within my love2d game, however it's not specifically a love2d problem.

I need the the regex pattern that will allow me to extract the strings in-between the '|||' characters. I'm using string.gmatch().

tile_18.png,-195,-193|||tile_18.png,-194,-193|||tile_18.png,-193,-193|||tile_18.png,-192,-193|||tile_12.png,-195,-192|||tile_12.png,-194,-192|||tile_12.png,-193,-192|||tile_12.png,-192,-192|||tile_6.png,-190,-198|||tile_6.png,-186,-198|||tile_6.png,-184,-196|||tile_6.png,-189,-188|||tile_6.png,-190,-189|||

[bobbyjones]

This page documents how to split in lua.
http://lua-users.org/wiki/SplitJoin

[ivan]

The following should work as long as your file names do not contain "|"

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for s in string.gmatch(input, "([^%|]+)") do
  print(s)
end

Why is the input string such a mess in the first place?