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Help with knowing how to work with msg:lower() in a chat script?

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I have my chat script which works GOOD. But what I am wanting is when someone says 'fireddusk' (which is my roblox username) by itself OR in a sentence, I want this code to run. I have no idea how to do this.

if msg:lower() == 'fireddusk' then
		local Label = Instance.new('TextLabel')
		Label.BackgroundTransparency = 1
		Label.TextStrokeTransparency = 0.8
		Label.TextXAlignment = 'Left'
		Label.TextColor3 = Color3.new(255/255, 170/255, 0/255)
		Label.Font = 'SourceSansBold'
		Label.Size = UDim2.new(1,0,0,15)
		Label.Position = UDim2.new(0,0,1,-15)
		Label.TextScaled = true
		Label.Text = "[SERVER]: Don't say the creators name or you could eat a pickle."
		PushMsgs(Label.Size.Y.Offset)
		Chats[#Chats +1] = Label
		Label.Parent = Container
	end
Anonymous

3 comments

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You have so much reputation, you've been on this site for quite a while, but you still don't know how to do something as simple as this?

Anonymous#
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My rep is mostly from asking questions. I am a slow learner.

Anonymous#
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Sorry. Didn't mean to be mean.

Anonymous#

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The easiest way to accomplish this is using string patterns. Using the match function, you could simply ask msg:match("fireddusk") and it would return 'fireddusk' if it exists in the string or nil otherwise. 

if msg:lower():match("fireddusk") then
	-- do stuff
end

Edit

Thanks to BlueTaslem for pointing out the error with whitespace. Turns out to be a more complicated problem than I assumed. Should have tested it before I posted.

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5 comments

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If you're just checking if some text is found within a string, I find that :find() is an easier-to-read alternative to "match"

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Also, %s* is not quite right since it would reject 1) "hi firedusk" (no space after) 2) "firedusk hi" (no space before) 3) "firedusk, hi" (punctuation after), etc

Anonymous#
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True, thanks for pointing that out

Anonymous#
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So what should I do?

Anonymous#
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The code that is posted now will work if "fireddusk" is somwhere in the string msg

Anonymous#

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