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Sentence/Text/Word to chars.

Started by LeDark Lua, 30 July 2015 - 10:46 AM

LeDark Lua #1

599 posts

Location LeLua

Posted 30 July 2015 - 12:46 PM

So i have this text:

This is an awesome text.

And I want it to change into:

Spoiler


T
h
i
s

i
s

a
n

a
w
e
s
o
m
e

t
e
x
t
.

Thanks in advance.

Edited on 30 July 2015 - 10:50 AM

Lignum #2

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570 posts

Posted 30 July 2015 - 01:08 PM

You could do this:


local str = "Test"
local chars = {}

for i=1,#str do
   chars[#chars + 1] = str:sub(i, i)
end

return chars

To reverse it, use table.concat:


return table.concat(chars)

LeDark Lua #3

599 posts

Location LeLua

Posted 30 July 2015 - 01:10 PM

Thanks.