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separating words in strings?
I was wondering how I could separate words that are chatted, so that if I chat "give me all the money" and have it print results I would get -give -me -all -the -money
[EDIT] I figured ^^^ that out. but now I need to know how to access specific words.
1 | game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(Player) |
2 | Player.Chatted:connect(function(Message) |
3 | for i in string.gmatch(Message, "%S+") do |
4 | print(i) |
5 | end |
6 | end) |
7 | end) |
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Elaborate 'access specific words'. Goulstem 8144 — 10y
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Lets say I said some thing with 5 words, and I wanted it to print the 2nd word I said... BSIncorporated 640 — 10y
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I'm answering according to this statement: "Lets say I said some thing with 5 words, and I wanted it to print the 2nd word I said..."
You CAN use some fancy string pattern for this, or if you're lazy like me then just predefine a number variable, then increment the variable for each string match with your generic for loop. Check if the number is the specified number.. then get it!(:
01 | local wordWanted = 2 --The second word |
02 | local num = 0 |
03 | local str = 'Hello, I really like to eat pie' |
04 | local word --Make an empty variable to set the word to when you find it |
05 |
06 | --%w+ is the pattern for any alphanumeric(letter or number) |
07 | for i in str:gmatch('%w+') do |
08 | num = num + 1 |
09 | if num == wordWanted then |
10 | word = i |
11 | end |
12 | end |
13 |
14 | print(word or 'Did not find the #'..wordWanted..' word') --just for funzies(: |
15 |
16 | --Would print 'I' |