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Why my string.gsub returns a nonsense string?
I have a part called "Checkpoint2", and inside it, there is a script with this function
print(string.gsub(script.Parent.Name, "Checkpoint", ""))
called when Touched.
It should print "2" , shouldn't it? too bad, cause it prints "2 1" and I have no idea why... I've tried to make a second string.gsub to remove the " 1" , but then it prints "2 0" ! Can someone see an error here? (the rest of the script is useless)
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gsub actually returns two things. First the string, and then how many times it did the replace.
print prints all things returned, so you're seeing both, separated by a tab.
There isn't an error here at all! If you store it to a variable, you'll see that it works normally:
local str, matches = script.Parent.Name:gsub("Checkpoint","")
print(str)
-- 2
print(matches)
-- 1 (the other number you're seeing)
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It's kinda weird, but it worked. Thanks. Tesouro 407 — 9y
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If you added a comma to the str varialbe and added an matches variable after the comma, if you printed the matches variable, I assume it would print the number of matches it found, correct? Spongocardo 1991 — 9y
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Correct BlueTaslem 18071 — 9y