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[QUESTION] How to turn words into numbers

Started by anonimo182, 27 October 2012 - 06:32 PM

anonimo182 #1

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Posted 27 October 2012 - 08:32 PM

Is there a way to turn words into numbers, and if there is, how?

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Lyqyd #2

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Posted 27 October 2012 - 08:33 PM

If you mean turning "one" into 1, you'd need a lookup table. If you mean turning "1" into 1, you need tonumber().

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Posted 27 October 2012 - 08:38 PM

but like "hello" into 4986

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Posted 27 October 2012 - 08:40 PM

Also, there is something called coercion. Coercion in Lua basicly implies a type change during things like (addition | subtraction | division | multiplication).
EX:
> =( 1 + '1' + "1" )
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(EDIT:
Seems like the forums didn't alert me to a new post…)

Edited on 27 October 2012 - 06:42 PM

Doyle3694 #5

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Posted 27 October 2012 - 08:42 PM

hello into 4986? why would that make sense?

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Posted 27 October 2012 - 08:45 PM

just an example :D/>/>

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Posted 27 October 2012 - 08:46 PM

Do you want each word to become a random number?

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Posted 28 October 2012 - 11:36 AM

http://lua-users.org/wiki/StringLibraryTutorial try that one, string.byte should help you.