Coloring words in string via script with typing effect

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Give the solution to @Nitefal, but I just want to add some extra considerations for what you’re looping with (my basis for these are from this post):

Let’s have the string <i>some</i> some which would show up as “some some”

string.len() would also rich-text tags (like <i> and </i> as seperate characters, which is why it would return 16 characters. The post provides an example of a function that can be used to filter out tags:

local function removeTags(str)
	-- replace line break tags (otherwise grapheme loop will miss those linebreak characters)
	str = str:gsub("<br%s*/>", "\n")
	return (str:gsub("<[^<>]->", ""))
end

warn(string.len("<i>some</i> some")) -- 16,, includes tags :(
warn(string.len(removeTags("<i>some</i> some"))) -- 9,, yay!!

Now for emojis, let’s have the string “hi :fire:”

string.len() considers emojis as 4 characters (because emojis are 4 bytes). The solution is to use utf8.len() instead which correctly considers a single emoji to be a single character.

warn(string.len("hi 🔥")) -- 7,, because an emoji equals 4...
warn(utf8.len("hi 🔥")) -- 4,, yay!!
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