Cutting portions of a string

[Nerox.]

I have a normal .txt file, that file includes a lot of info in that format

[[Event name: Blbabalba]

[Event date: mm/dd/yy]

[Event Desc: blalbal]

1. blablalbalblabla (blabalbal)....

......5.bblablablal

]

[Event name: blalblalba2]

[Event date: mm/dd/yy 2]

........etc, you get the idea

There is more than 300 of these portions and they are all after each other, I know I can use string.sub to cut the string but how to identify where to start from and where to end, I want to process this automatically so the scripts get every event part and store this string in a table.

see these 2 [ ] ? these aren't in the string I just put them so you understand that what's inside of them is the part which should be cut for each event part

How to do this,

and Thanks in advance

[Bonsai]

Maybe you should just save it as JSON instead.

[Nerox.]

Well I will but first I have to convert current file to json so I have to get each event info and store it in a lua table then convert them to whatever format I want json, sql, etc..

So how to retrieve each  portion of the string ?

[nikitafloy]

1 hour ago, Nerox. said:

Well I will but first I have to convert current file to json so I have to get each event info and store it in a lua table then convert them to whatever format I want json, sql, etc..

So how to retrieve each  portion of the string ?

try to export in table

[nikitafloy]

del

Edited February 7, 2017 by nikitafloy