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.
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!
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."This discussion is preserved as it was. New answers, comments, and votes are closed.
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This is more than I could ask. Thank you so much!