How to loop through all the chars in a string

local word = "Test" --# test string
for i = 1, #word do --# start a loop that iterates as many times as there are letters in the test string
  print(word:sub(i, i)) --# print a string.sub() of the test string (printing only the letter the loop is currently on)
end

Dog, on 10 November 2016 - 02:00 AM said:

You don't need a while/do loop - this should work for you…

local word = "Test" --# test string
for i = 1, #word do --# start a loop that iterates as many times as there are letters in the test string
  print(word:sub(i, i)) --# print a string.sub() of the test string (printing only the letter the loop is currently on)
end

local text = "Hello World"
for char in text:gmatch "." do
 print(char)
end

H4X0RZ, on 10 November 2016 - 06:06 AM said:

Dog, on 10 November 2016 - 02:00 AM said:

You don't need a while/do loop - this should work for you…

local word = "Test" --# test string
for i = 1, #word do --# start a loop that iterates as many times as there are letters in the test string
  print(word:sub(i, i)) --# print a string.sub() of the test string (printing only the letter the loop is currently on)
end

There's this too

local text = "Hello World"
for char in text:gmatch "." do
print(char)
end

But it all comes down to personal preference.

a = "some string"
a:gsub(".", function(char)
    print(char)
end)