stringsplitluaemojilua-5.1

How to separate emojies in string without spaces in LUA 5.1

I want to use split function of LUA 5.1 to split string of emoji characters without spaces and add space between ones, but I can't do it rightly. So I do it by this way, but it's wrong:

#!/usr/bin/env lua

local text = "👊🏽👊🏽🥊😂🎹😂👩‍👩‍👧‍👦👨‍👦‍👦⌚↔"
for emoji in string.gmatch(text, "[%z\1-\127\194-\244][\128-\191]*") do
    io.write(emoji .. " ")          
end

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MY WRONG RESULT: 👊 🏽 👊 🏽 🥊 😂 🎹 😂 👩 👩 👧 👦 👨 👦 👦 ⌚ ↔

WAITED RESULT: 👊🏽 👊🏽 🥊 😂 🎹 😂 👩‍👩‍👧‍👦 👨‍👦‍👦 ⌚ ↔

Solution 
  • local text = "👊🏽👊🏽🥊😂🎹😂👩‍👩‍👧‍👦👨‍👦‍👦⌚↔"
for emoji in text
   :gsub("(.)([\194-\244])", "%1\0%2")
   :gsub("%z(\240\159\143[\187-\191])", "%1")
   :gsub("%z(\239\184[\128-\143])", "%1")
   :gsub("%z(\226\128\141)%z", "%1")
   :gmatch"%Z+" 
do
   print(emoji)
end