How would I go about replacing text?

Asked Dec 22, 2017392 views1 answers

Title says it all, but basically I want something like:

-- My script
text = "I love bananas very much!"
-- And then have some code that changes "bananas" to "apples"
print(text) --> So it will say "I love apples very much!"

I'n not very good with string manipulation yet, so any help would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance, SebbyTheGODKid

AnonymousDec 22, 2017

1 answer

✓ Accepted answer

I believe it involves using gsub

local text = "I love bananas very much!"
text = string.gsub(text,"bananas","apples")
print(text)

AnonymousDec 22, 2017Permalink

3 comments

Thank you that works! +1 upvote and answer accepted!

AnonymousDec 22, 2017#

Will this replace every instance of bananas, or just the first one it finds?

AnonymousDec 22, 2017#

It should replace them all. Thanks for the upvote!

AnonymousDec 22, 2017#

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