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Is there an easier way to get the message after the space in a string?
As in example, I have a script which detects when players speak, or chat. I want to get their message, but only after the space.
Example:
local message = "Hello dude."-- dude. local message = "/kill all"-- all local message = "I hate hate."-- hate hate.
I don't want the space included.
This is what I'm doing currently,
> = string.sub(message, string.find(message, "%s"), #message)
That works, but I feel like it could be simplified.
Thank you!
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First, if you use string methods your code becomes a little shorter and nicer. You can also use -1 to mean "end of string" so you don't have to say #message:
message:sub( message:find("%s"), -1)
But instead, you can use match. You describe a pattern and put () around the pieces you care about.
For example, you can capture everything from the beginning until the first space(s), then everything after the first space(s):
-- ^: start of the string
-- (%S+) one or more non-space characters
-- %s+ one or more space characters
-- (.+) one or more characters
-- $: end of string
local before, after = message:match("^(%S+)%s+(.+)$")
Note that before and after will be nil if the message isn't the right form.
This would break the example into
"Hello dude."-->"Hello"and"dude.""/kill all"-->"/kill""all""I hate hate."-->"I""hate hate."
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This is more than I could ask. Thank you so much! OldPalHappy 1477 — 8y