Hello,
I'm working on this project, and it kind of emulates a small part of TF2's economy, where items will have a quality. At some point in the game, the item is eventually renamed to add the quality as a prefix, e.g. Emerald Eye becomes Ordinary Emerald Eye.
I managed to whip up a small helper function that successfully removes the prefix, but I'm not particularly well versed in string manipulation.
Here's the code:
function getOriginalName( name ) local words = {} for word in name:gmatch("%w+") do table.insert(words, word) end table.remove(words, 1) return table.concat(words, " ") end
Now, if I used Ordinary Emerald Eye for example, it successfully removes the Ordinary prefix. However, if I use an item that has some punctuation in the name, e.g. Ordinary Mr. Hatbot, it doesn't quite return what I need, and therein lies my issue. It will return the name, excluding the period.
Would anyone be able to assist me in this? I tried editing the pattern, so it was %wp+ rather than %w+, but to no avail.
Cheers in advance!