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Filtering out a comma in a string value?

alright so i am completely new to scripting anything with strings and i got a system set up to when someone joins read a value and set the players color to that value but the issue is some of the value options wont be 11 characters long (124,92,70 something like that instead of 204, 142, 105) and when its like that it just sets the last 2 Color3 values to 0 because its trying to read the comma from it but i dont know how to filter the comma out and this is the best attempt ive had so far

Script:

		local R = string.sub(Color.Value, 1, 3)
		if string.match(Color.Value,",",5,7) then
			local G = string.sub(Color.Value,5,6)
		else
			local G = string.sub(Color.Value, 5, 7)
		if string.match(Color.Value,",",8) then
			local B = string.sub(Color.Value,8)
		else
			local B = string.sub(Color.Value, 9)
		end
		end
		for i,v in pairs(char:GetChildren()) do
			if v:IsA("BodyColors") then
				v.HeadColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(R,G,B)
				v.LeftArmColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(R,G,B)
				v.LeftLegColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(R,G,B)
				v.RightArmColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(R,G,B)
				v.RightLegColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(R,G,B)
				v.TorsoColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(R,G,B)
			end
		end

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If you want to remove a comma then do string.gsub()

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like @voidofdeathfire has already pointed out, string.gsub() is the function you're looking for

the function has three parameters: a subject string, a pattern, and a replacement string.

here's an example on how it works:

local example = "1-2-3-4-5"

local pattern = ',' -- what it will look for
local replacement = ' ' -- and what it will replace with
local result = string.gsub(example,pattern,replacement)

print(result) 
-- expected result: 1 2 3 4 5

In your case, you want it to look like this

local given_string = tostring(Color.Value) -- this function will turn it into a string
local pattern = ','
local replacement = ' '
string.gsub(given_string,pattern,replacement)

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thanks mates

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