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Text slow typing effect ( Advance Scripting ) Help?

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ok so I want TextLabel text sentence slowly type out like in those CSI movies you know where it types like a typewriter you know ok so that would look something like this

script.parent.text = "H"
wait(.1)
script.parent.text = "He"
wait(.1)
script.parent.text = "Hel"
wait(.1)
script.parent.text = "Hell"  
wait(.1)
script.parent.text = "Hello"

you get the idea but there has to be a more professional and better way of doing this I just can't think of anything that would work in this situation.

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Use string.sub() to piece up a String, join this within a generic for loop you can increment the character-max argument supplied to sub, and as well optionally supply a yield as all loops require.

local TextLabel = script.Parent

local TypeString = "Hello world!"

for Character = 1,#TypeString do wait(.5)
    TextLabel.Text = TypeString:sub(1,Character)
end
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Thanks! worked great, only thing is that you forgot to add a wait() for the for loop

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If it worked, don't forget to mark it as an answer so other people know this question has been solved.

Anonymous#
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ok

Anonymous#
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Look at that. I literally just make an answer about yield requirements of iteration scopes.... this is just sad;)

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