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Is it possible to print certain elements of an asset's XML?
01 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> |
02 | <roblox xmlns:xmime="http://www.w3.org/2005/05/xmlmime" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://www.roblox.com/roblox.xsd" version="4"> |
03 | <External>null</External> |
04 | <External>nil</External> |
05 | <Item class="BodyColors"> |
06 | <Properties> |
07 | <int name="HeadColor">24</int> |
08 | <int name="LeftArmColor">24</int> |
09 | <int name="LeftLegColor">24</int> |
10 | <string name="Name">Body Colors</string> |
11 | <int name="RightArmColor">24</int> |
12 | <int name="RightLegColor">24</int> |
13 | <int name="TorsoColor">1003</int> |
14 | <bool name="archivable">true</bool> |
15 | </Properties> |
16 | </Item> |
17 | </roblox> |
I need a string manipulation method to print every line containing the int tag.
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A full XML parser is a large task. But, we can probably assume certain things about format -- for instance, that each tag is on its own line.
In that case, it's pretty easy to split lines up using :gmatch
01 | -- `xml` is the string containing XML |
02 |
03 | for line in xml:gmatch("[^\n]+") do |
04 | -- The pattern: |
05 | -- \n -- newline |
06 | -- [^\n] -- any character not the newline |
07 | -- [^\n]+ -- a (longest) sequence of at least 1 non-newline character |
08 | if line:lower():match("^%s*<int") then |
09 | -- The pattern: |
10 | -- ^ -- at the beginning of the line, |
11 | -- %s* -- any amount of (optional) whitespace |
12 | -- <int -- The literal characters `int` |
13 | print(line) |
14 | end |
15 | end |
EDIT: Thank you PiggyJingles, I wrote "\s" when I meant to write "%s" (\s is used by JavaScript; %s by Lua)
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I think you meant to put a "%" instead of a "\" on the 8th line. PiggyJingles 358 — 10y
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1 | --<int name=\"..\">...</int> finds every line with this beginning |
2 | --(%w+) returns the value of the name |
3 | --(%d+) returns the value inside the tag |
4 | for key, int in string.gmatch(str, "<int name=\"(%w+)\">(%d+)</int>") do |
5 | print(key, int); |
6 | end |
key is the name, int is the integer in the middle of the tags
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This is a really beautiful solution (except the inherent ugliness of regex) BlueTaslem 18071 — 10y