Let's say I had this in a textbox or string:
Hello!
World
This is
a string
that doesn't
exist!
If I wanted to, say, print line 4, how would I go about doing that? There doesn't seem to be any straightforward way of doing this.
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How to read a specific line from a textbox?
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You can use string.split to split new lines into seperate parts, then getting the 4th result.
Example:
local str = [[
hello
ok
yes
wanted
]]
print(string.split(str, "\n")[4])
-- \n meaning new line
string.split(<string> what string to split, <string> what part to split)
This should give a table containg
[1] = hello [2] = ok [3] = yes [4] = wanted
As string.split returns a table.
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good explanation