as the topic said
i want to know how to detect a spacing or random caps word
Example: “test”
for what ive tried so far it only detect “test” instead of “tEsT” or “t es t”
are there a way to detect those?
One approach is to convert the input string to lowercase and remove all whitespace, then compare it with the lowercase version of the target word.
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OK, here’s an idea:
Detecting words case-insensitively is pretty straightforward. All you have to do is convert the text to lowercase with :lower().
E.g.
local source = "fOo Ba R"
local lowered = source:lower() -- "foo ba r"
local match = lowered:match("foo") -- Matches!
As for ignoring spaces, one idea is to just remove them entirely.
E.g.
local source = "fOo Ba R"
local lowered = source:lower() -- "foo ba r"
local nowhitespace = lowered:gsub(" ", "")
local match = nowhitespace:match("bar") -- Matches!
Be careful of false positives though, example is
best estimate would match the “t est”.
thats actually pretty smart ima try that