[Lua][Problem][Question]Rednet Communication Server

I've been trying create a sort of central rednet server for my house so it can handle sending information between different clients and excecute its own functions if called on. There are backup servers designed so that if the main is not able to send any information to the sending client it will automatically send to another of the server. However seeing as though some of the sending is based on inputs from a user, like [Recipient ID], [Message]. (For example; 4, Hello! ) Im not sure how to send this all in one line. As it is all one line from the input.

Is this even possible?

I may be asking the impossible here, if its not possible I can just go back to a simple send with a line break between then have the server split the message itself.


cheers

I suggest you to send serialized tables:

Client

local table = {4, "hello!"}
local sTable = textutils.serialize(table)
rednet.send(serverID, sTable)

Server

local id, msg = rednet.receive()
local table = textutils.unserialize(msg)
print(table[2])            --will print "hello!"

Hope I helped!

Yea, it's possible to do that but you'll have to create multiple variables and later on asign them to rednet.send() function.

Odd I tried this last night but was getting rednet:350 errors when I tried to send it. But this doesn't answer the entire question. I still need to know if its possible to split a single line up after the comma.

Use string.match. This may do what you're looking for:

beforeComma, afterComma = string.match(inputString, "(.-),(.*)")

Thanks Lyqyd, thats exactly what I needed.