Turn word into a number

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#1

Hello everyone! I´m trying to make a variable where a number of letters turn into a number. I have tried tonumber(textlabel.Text) and tostring(textlabel.Text) but both didn´t work. So please, can someone say how to do it and explain how it works. Thanks!

#2

try printing textlabel.Text and see if its actually number as text because if it is then tonumber(text) would make it number

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#3

You mean turning 1 to 1 or one to 1?

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#4

Letter “one” has three letters. So one = 3

#5

Oh then you can do #textlabel.Text to get the length of the text

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#6

use #textlabel.Text

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#7

Have a question, what does # mean?

#8

# is the length operator in Lua.

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#9

Basicly # is used to get length of string/arrays (tables)

so if you have lets say #{1,2,3,5} will return 4 since the length of table is 4

#string returns the length of string

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#10

print(type(#textlabel.Text)) it should print number. If it does then you can do whatever you want with it.

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#11

It works! The topic is now closed.

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#12 
print(string.len(textlabel.Text))

should work too I think

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#13

Yes, string.len() will work too.

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#14

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