How would i find certain letters in a string?

Asked Dec 31, 2015223 views1 answers

Lets say I have two values, "Baby", and "Dog". What I want to do is find both of those strings in one name in lighting, as in "Baby Dog". The thing is, I don't know how to find certain letters in strings to be able to do this.

AnonymousDec 31, 2015

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You can use find function. string.find(originalstring,'Baby') or originalstring:find('Baby')

AnonymousDec 31, 2015#

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You just use string.match. It matches strings. If it finds a match, it returns that match; otherwise it returns nil.

local str = "Baby Dog"
print( str:match("Baby") ) --> Baby
print( str:match("qwerty") ) --> nil

You can also use string patterns for less specific matching.

AnonymousDec 31, 2015Edited Dec 31, 2015Permalink

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