If the title does not explain clearly enough, my doubt is this: How can (If we can) we convert a string into a table? For example, I have a string value. The string is "MyStringvalue". Keep in mind that it's the STRING, not the NAME OF THE STRING. So now, in my table, I want the first term in the table to be "M". The second is "y". Case sensitive. The third will be "S" and so forth. Is there a way we can do this? And if so, how?
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How to make a string in a table form?
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There's a few ways of doing it:
#approach one:
local myString = "Hello World"
local characters = {}
--putting string in table by looping through each position in the string
--and getting the substring at that position (the character at that position
for i = 1, #myString do
table.insert(characters, myString:sub(i,i))
end
--print out the characters array to show that we put the string in the table:
for _, character in pairs(characters)do
print(character)
end
#approach two:
--use string.split("") to split up every character and put it into a table
local myString = "Hello World"
local characters = myString:split("")
--print out the characters array to show that we put the string in the table:
for _, character in pairs(characters)do
print(character)
end
Both ways work, but I prefer string.split(myString,"") (approach two) since it's faster to write out.
Both have same speeds really.
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Good idea, I have lots of questions about strings! (Like "len", "lower", and more...) I will accept your answer for now! Have a great day :D
You can read about it here: https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/lua-docs/string
Let me know what your questions are, I'd be happy to answer in discord since it's easier to talk there: Lucy#0003