Why is string.gmatch not working on punctuation?

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So I am developing an admin script and currently I am working on making it so you can do a command on multiple players are the same time by separating them with commas, for that I am using string.gmatch to find the comma and then removing it with string.gsub. The problem is though, that I cannot get string.gmatch to work with punctuation (including commas), is there a way round this?

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You would’ve needed to actually post the code used because it’s most likely a problem on your end.

Anyway, I got this to work only using gmatch:

local str = "apple, banana, orange, potato"

for s in str:gmatch("[^,%s]+") do
    print(s)
end

Output:

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IMG_20201231_141404885Ă—359 19.3 KB

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Yeah, %w isn’t the best approach here because players’ usernames can have underscores. The issue you were having was probably that it was only matching one though

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The code: for stringChar in string.gmatch(arg, "(%w)") do

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Ok thanks so much, it works, I’ve been trying to find a solution for hours.