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How can I separate stringValues?

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Starhawke_r 11

6 years ago

Hello,

I am wondering how I can separate stringValues?

If I have a stringValue that has: "100 | Title | Views" All separated with a | is there a way I can make an array separating each of the bits of text between the "|"?

And also, how do I access different parts of an array?

Thanks, Ethan!

http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=Global_namespace/String_manipulation theCJarmy7 1293 — 6y

I don't see anything about seperating it between the Starhawke_r 11 — 6y

You could try and use this: http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=Global_namespace/String_manipulation#string.find TheeDeathCaster 2368 — 6y

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Answered by

Bucwheed 37

6 years ago

Edited 6 years ago

try looking at these pages

https://www.lua.org/pil/20.2.html

http://lua-users.org/wiki/PatternsTutorial

http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php/String_pattern

code:

local raw = "100 | Title | Views"
local data = {}

for word in string.gmatch(raw, '([^ | ]+)') do -- looks for a pattern in the string
    table.insert(data, word) --add the separated version to data
end

--we can see if this worked by unpacking it
print(unpack(data))

output: 100 Title Views

Thank you! Starhawke_r 11 — 6y

How can I separate stringValues?

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