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How do I use a variable and text in a text property?
I want to set the text of a hint to a variable with text. Like this:
1 | game.workspace.Message.Text = "The game will start in (variable)" |
How can I do that?
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This answer is mainly to clear up the two other answers.
Concatenation is basically a programmer word for joining things together.
To perform concatenation in Lua, all you need to do is add .. in the right places;
1 | local currentTime = "5 PM" |
2 | local str = "The time is " ..currentTime.. "!" --// Notice the space between 'is' and the speech mark |
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4 | print(str) --// prints 'The time is 5 PM!' |
A concatenation will error when you try and concatenate values that have not had tostring() performed upon them (excluding numbers and objects).
Hope I helped!
~TDP
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You're looking for this : Concatenation.
In your case it's going to be like this :
1 | variable = "a couple of seconds..." |
2 | workspace.Message.Text = "The game will start in " ..variable |
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4 | --The message should read : The game will start in a couple of seconds. |
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It will actually say 'The game will start inacouple of seconds', because concatenation does not add spaces. TheDeadlyPanther 2460 — 8y
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Correct. Edited it strongrussianboy123 68 — 8y
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Here is a example as how you can use variubles in text.
1 | local Info = 123456 |
2 | print("My info is "..Info.."!") |
So what we want to do is
1 | local TimeOfStart = 20 seconds |
2 | game.Workspace.Message.Text = "The game will start in "..TimeOfStart..". Please wait." |
What this will put is "The game will start in 20 seconds. Please wait." If this answer is helpful, please accept the answer!
