Status/Event bar help?

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here is a simple one using the chat event.

prefix = ':' -- symbol here
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(plr)
plr.Chatted:connect(function(msg)
local num = msg:match('^.-' .. prefix .. 'm')
print(num)
if  num then
local m = Instance.new('Message', workspace)
m.Text = msg:sub(num:len()+1,msg:len())
wait((msg:len()-num:len())/10)
m:Destroy()
end
end)
end)

AnonymousMay 14, 2016Permalink

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ok but i just have one more quiestion; what does all that stuff on lines 8, 9, and 10 mean? My guess is that is has something to do with the remoal of ":m" but i think i need that explained to me please

AnonymousMay 14, 2016#

well you see in matching or string patterns '^' means at the beggining of the string '.' means all the characters, '-' means to get 0 or more. then I added the prefix and m to get '^.-:m' with '^.-' being the pattern and ':m' being what we look for. so if someone said 'ebybse:m hello' it would still work in the same way as ':m hello'. now the reason why I did this is to get the string lenght fro

AnonymousMay 15, 2016#

now the reason why I did this is to get the string lenght from fhes:m or :m so I can then depict the message. in contrare there are to ways to set up string maniulation string.len('string') or ('string'):len(). so I got the lenght of that and added one because there will always be a space for peopple in there answers. and then I got it so it gets to the end of the message. line 10 is just so we ca

AnonymousMay 15, 2016#

then it destroys the message because we dont want it up there.

AnonymousMay 15, 2016#

oh ok. But i just wanted to say, Messages are deprecated now, i had to change that to appear in a GUI. But thanks for the help!

AnonymousMay 15, 2016#

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