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> test = "A door west of here, an exit west of here, Kilstrin Mortificer is one
east, a door south of one east, an exit south of one east, an exit southwest of
one east, an exit west of one east and the limit of your vision is one east from
 here."
> for i in string.gmatch(test, "%s?([^,]*)" ) do print(i) end
A door west of here

an exit west of here

Kilstrin Mortificer is one east

a door south of one east

an exit south of one east

an exit southwest of one east

an exit west of one east and the limit of your vision is one east from here.

function test (name, line, wildcards)
  exits = {}

  for exit in string.gmatch (line, "exit (%a-) of here") do
    exits [exit] = true
  end -- for

  tprint (exits)
end -- test


test ("blah", [[A door west of here, an exit west of here, 
Kilstrin Mortificer is one east, 
a door south of one east, an exit south of one east, 
an exit southwest of one east, 
an exit west of one east and the limit of your vision is one east from here.]])


--> Output

"west"=true

test = [[A door west of here, an exit west of here, 
Kilstrin Mortificer is one east, 
a door south of one east, an exit south of one east, 
an exit southwest of one east, 
an exit west of one east and the limit of your vision is one east from here.]]

exits = {}

test = string.gsub (test, " and ", ", ")

for part in string.gmatch (test, "%s?([^,]*)" ) do 

  exittype = "exit"
  exitline = string.match (part, "^an exit (.*)")

  if not exitline then
    exitline = string.match (part, "^a door (.*)")
    exittype = "door"
  end -- if  

  if exitline then
    exit, where = string.match (exitline, "^(.+) of (.+)$")
    table.insert (exits, { where = where, exit = exit, exittype = exittype })
  end -- if
end

tprint (exits)

--> Output

1:
  "exit"="west"
  "where"="here"
  "exittype"="exit"
2:
  "exit"="south"
  "where"="one east"
  "exittype"="door"
3:
  "exit"="south"
  "where"="one east"
  "exittype"="exit"
4:
  "exit"="southwest"
  "where"="one east"
  "exittype"="exit"
5:
  "exit"="west"
  "where"="one east"
  "exittype"="exit"

test = [[A door west of here, an exit west of here,
Kilstrin Mortificer is one east, a door south of one east,
Pite fhtagn and Chimara R Speshul are one east and one south,
an exit south of one east, an exit southwest of one east,
an exit west of one east and the limit of your vision is one east from here.]]

tprint(exits)

output

"exits":
  1:
    "exit"="west"
    "where"="here"
    "exittype"="exit"
  2:
    "exit"="south"
    "where"="one east"
    "exittype"="exit"
  3:
    "exit"="southwest"
    "where"="one east"
    "exittype"="exit"
  4:
    "exit"="west"
    "where"="one east"
    "exittype"="exit"
"doors":
  1:
    "exit"="west"
    "where"="here"
    "exittype"="door"
  2:
    "exit"="south"
    "where"="one east"
    "exittype"="door"
"living":
  1:
    "exittype"="living"
    "where"="one east"
    "who"="Kilstrin Mortificer"
  2:
    "exittype"="living"
    "where"="one east and one south"
    "who"="Pite fhtagn and Chimara R Speshul"

for i, exit in ipairs (exits) do
 
  print ("type=", exit.exittype, "exit=", exit.exit, "where=", exit.where)

end -- for

Output -->

type= exit exit= west where= here
type= door exit= south where= one east
type= exit exit= south where= one east
type= exit exit= southwest where= one east
type= exit exit= west where= one east

for i, exit in ipairs (exits.exits) do
  print ("type=", exits.exittype, "exit=", exits.exits, "where=", exits.where)
end -- for

Output -->

type= nil exit= table: 04D5C928 where= nil