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Help with strings.

Started by ebernerd, 01 February 2015 - 02:09 AM

ebernerd #1

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Posted 01 February 2015 - 03:09 AM

I'm stuck with something
So, I am writing something that requires a certain character of a string. So, like, is there a way to return… say, the third letter of the string "love"? And it would return "v"?

Any idea?

KingofGamesYami #2

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Posted 01 February 2015 - 03:09 AM


print( string.sub( "love", 3, 3 ) )

Quintuple Agent #3

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Posted 01 February 2015 - 03:33 AM

Just to elaborate further, string.sub() takes (string,starting point,[ending point]), if no ending point is given it will just go to the end of the string.
You can also use negatives to work at the end of the string, such as


string.sub("love",-2)

would return "ve"
http://lua-users.org...LibraryTutorial

Edited on 01 February 2015 - 02:34 AM