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What would I do to make this script shorter?
I remember seeing something on wiki where you could find the text length of a string, I don't remember it clearly, so here is an example of what I have
script.Parent.Text = "g" wait(1) script.Parent.Text = "ge" wait(1) script.Parent.Text = "get" ----ETC.-------
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We can get pieces of a string, called substrings using the sub method:
msg = "Hello there" script.Parent.Text = msg:sub(1,5) -- get characters 1 to 5 (inclusive)
There are #msg characters in msg (# is a unary operator for string length as well as table length) so a loop could look like this:
for i = 1, #msg do
script.Parent.Text = msg:sub(1, i)
wait(1)
end
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I would like to add that you can also use the len() method to get the LENgth of a string. Perci1 4988 — 10y