How do you "invert string.gmatch?"

Asked Feb 7, 2018323 views1 answers

local example = "name | userid"
for i in string.gmatch(example, " | ") do
	print(i)
end

I'm trying to split name, and userid into separate strings, but the script above cuts out everything BUT the " | " when I want it to split on that, so how can I basically invert this?

AnonymousFeb 7, 2018

1 answer

✓ Accepted answer

local ID = "ID,ID,ID";
for i in string.gmatch(ID, "[^,^]+") do
print(i) -- You can get the name by using a async called game.Players:GetNameFromUserIdAsync()
end

AnonymousFeb 7, 2018Permalink

2 comments

That wasn't really what I asked for, but I was able to figure it out using your "format" or whatever you'd call the "[^,^]+" thing, thanks

AnonymousFeb 7, 2018#

That string is called a "pattern": http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=String_pattern

AnonymousFeb 7, 2018#

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