Cut Strings

Hey everyone,
I had the problem that I want a mini terminal in a programm. So if I start a programm I get tArgs = { . . . } also a table, but how can I get the same in a programm like with read() or how can I make from read() a table like:

local a = "down 5" --instert
local b = {"down", "5"} -- should it be

I hope you can help me!
Thanks,
timia2109

You simply split the string and insert each space-delimited chunk of characters in a table:

local stringsTable = {}
local inputString = read()
for match in string.gmatch(inputString, "(%S+)") do
  table.insert(stringsTable, match)
end

Thank you! It works!