splitting string

[Jacek Popławski <jacekpoplawski@...>]

Let's say I have following string in variable s:

s="abc 5 def 67 0.666"

I want to create following table from it:

t={"abc",5,"def",67,0.666}

What is simplest way to do it in Lua? In Python there is predefined function to
split string, must I write one for Lua myself?

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