termination eventname? [converting strings into special timeSettings]

Hello

I am making a game board, which shows the teams points countdown and all that stuff…

but im having trouble converting an "advanced" timesetting-string into seconds, or into another form.


the timesetting unconverted

"15m|30s"

the timesetting converted ( as I want it to be )

##--converted into seconds and then into a hour, minute, and a seconds variable:
hours=0
minutes=0
seconds=0
-- converting thingy here:

hours = convertedHours -- is now 0
minutes = convertedMinutes -- is now 15
seconds = convertedSeconds -- is now 30

At the beginning i tried with:

string.gsub(advancedtime,"|(.-)%a","")

I've tried with different string.gsub's but I find it really hard to find the matching patterns for this usage…

Any help is appreciated.


Thanks in Advance

What you want is string.gmatch, not gsub. This will return the parts of the string matching your pattern.

local tTime = {}
for time,type in string.gmatch("15m|30s","(%d-)([smh])|?") do --get both the type(s, m or h) aswell as the time value
  tTime[type] = tonumber(time) --stores the time value in a table
end
tTime.s = tTime.s or 0 --ensure there's an actual value in each index
tTime.m = tTime.m or 0
tTime.h = tTime.h or 0
tTime["totSecs"] = tTime.s+(tTime.h*60*60)+(tTime.m*60) --calculate total seconds
print(tTime.s.." seconds\n"..tTime.m.." minutes\n"..tTime.h.." hours\n"..tTime.totSecs.." total seconds")

Ohh. That explains quite a lot, why my code didn't work :wacko:/>

Thank you very much for helping!

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Oh, and I've made a counter… but i cannot terminate my program when its running?
can anyone tell me what the eventname for the termination combination is?

Thanks

function calculation()
	while true do
		local counter=os.startTimer(1)
		local e = {coroutine.yield()}
		if e[1]=="timer" then
			if e[2]==counter then
				data["tavle"].currentSecondsLeft = data["tavle"].currentSecondsLeft - 1 -- "tavle" means board
				term.setCursorPos(1,1)
				term.write("TID tilbage: "..tostring(data["tavle"].currentSecondsLeft)) --- This is danish... therefore quite weird words xD
			end
		elseif e[1]=="termination" then --- this for example... what is the name for this event?
			error()
		end
	end
end

Because you do coroutine.yield.
os.pullEvent checks for termination and is a wrapper for os.pullEventRaw which is a wrapper for coroutine.yield.

EDIT:
Looked at the full code…
That isn't the problem.
The termination event is 'terminate' not 'termination'

Oh Okay, Thank you!

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