local http = game:GetService('HttpService')
local data = http:GetAsync('http://www.roproxy.tk/Asset/AvatarAccoutrements.ashx?userId=156')
That data gets all assets worn by builderman, but I need to find a way to get that data into a table, possibly through methods of string manipulation, but I'm not entirely sure how to do this.
You could treat them as semicolon separated strings.
In that case, :gmatch is a good bet:
local list = {};
for url in data:gmatch("[^;]+") do
-- Explanation of pattern:
-- ; -- Semicolons
-- [;] -- A "character class" consisting of only semicolons
-- [^;] -- a class of all NOT semicolons
-- [^;]+ -- one or more contiguous not-semicolons
table.insert(list, url);
end
The only way I can think of how to do this is with a little bit of string manipulation. If you look the string GetAsync is returning, you'll notice that each asset is separated by a semi-colon [ ; ]. Using this, we can use some loops to find out how many assets there are (the last one does not have a semi-colon, so we'll need to add one) and then extract the asset ids from the string.
local http = game:GetService('HttpService')
local data = http:GetAsync('http://www.roproxy.tk/Asset/AvatarAccoutrements.ashx?userId=156')
function createTable()
local array = {}
local assetSeparators = {}
-- Find number of assets
for value in string.gmatch(data, ";") do
table.insert(assetSeparators, value)
end
-- Extract assets
local lastEnd = 1
for i = 1, #assetSeparators do
table.insert(array, string.sub(data, lastEnd, string.find(data, ";", lastEnd) - 1))
lastEnd = string.find(data, ";", lastEnd + 1) + 1
end
table.insert(array, string.sub(data, lastEnd)) -- The asset without a semi-colon
return array
end
local array = createTable()
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Wow, never knew about complement patterns. This is much better than my overcomplicated one.