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How to replace every single character in a string with a certain character?
Hi. I would like to know how I could replace a string with a character?
For example, I have a string: "Hello, this is a string"
What if I wanted to replace every single character in the string with an underscore? It would be like: "______ ____ __ _ ______"
How would I put that into a script?
I don't really know much about string manipulation. Thanks!
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Like admin commands? T3_MasterGamer 2189 — 2y
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Kind of? yeah LazokkYT 117 — 2y
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You can use regex to replace the characters, like "[%a%p%c]", you will just plug it in gsub and it will work. Example:
1 | local FilterCharacter = "_" |
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3 | local String = "Wow, I'm a string" |
4 | local FilteredString = string.gsub(String, "[%a%p%c]", FilterCharacter) |
5 | print(FilteredString) |