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How would it be possible to print a string letter by letter?
I've tried doing this but with no luck;
string = "Hello" while wait(0.5) do print(string.sub(string,1,1)) end
I'm basically trying to make it so that it prints the string letter by letter every 0.5 seconds until it reaches the last letter. Example;
H He Hel Hell Hello
Thanks.
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Firstly, you cannot use the word "string" as a variable, because it is a Lua keyword.
Aside from that, what you need to do is increment through all the letters of your string using a for loop. Here's how you would do it:
local word = "Hello" -- Your word
local length = string.len(word) -- This is the length of the word
for i = 1, length do -- Loops 5 times since "Hello" is 5 characters long
-- Prints the word from the first letter to the character position of i
print(string.sub(word, 1, i))
wait(0.5)
end
Here's a link to the ROBLOX Wiki on for loops in case you're confused about what just I did. I highly recommend you read it if you don't understand how a for loop works. They are very important and useful for programmers. :)
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