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Strings - how do you detect the third word a player says?
So I get that you can use string.sub to check if the player's first few letters are a prefix, and then you can use whatever they say after that as a player's name, or whatever.
But how exactly do you find out where the second word ends? I mean, let's say I wanted to make a command that would forcefield a player for a duration of time
:ff bluehawks 20
How would I actually get the third word? In this case it's a number, but what if it wasn't?
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you could try doing (string:split(" "))[3] mybituploads 304 — 4y
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So you can use string.split method for strings that roblox has implemented.
Here's an example
01 | game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr) |
02 | plr.Chatted:Connect(function(msg) |
03 | local ThirdWord = msg:split(" ")[3] --Splitting the message which returns an array |
04 | --[[ Here is just extra because I feel like it |
05 | if typeof(ThirdWord) == "number" then --Checking if it's a number |
06 | --Do your thing |
07 | end |
08 | ]] |
09 | end) |
10 | end) |
If you are more visual let me show you something here
1 | local Message = ":ff uhi_o 40" |
2 | local Words = Message:split(" ") --Returns an array like so {":ff", "uhi_o", "40"} |
3 | local ThirdWord = Words[3] --Getting the third element |
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woah, i learned something new today raid6n 2196 — 4y
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Just split the strings.
01 | local Message = ":ff bluehawks 20" |
02 |
03 | function Split(Command, Separator) |
04 | Seperator = Seperator or "%s" |
05 | Arguments = {} |
06 | for String in Command:gmatch("([^"..Seperator.."]+)") do |
07 | table.insert(Arguments, String) |
08 | end |
09 | return Arguments |
10 | end |
11 |
12 | local Duration = Split(Message)[2] |
See this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1426954/split-string-in-lua
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you know what nevermind User#30567 0 — 4y