So, I really need this. I want to be able to pick some text out of a string and make it a variable. Here’s a demonstration;
local string = [[
Application Creator: Aiden_12114
Application Results: 5/10
]]
local Result = string.take(string, 'Application Results: %')
local Creator = string.take(string, 'Application Creator: %')
How can I do this?
local appCreator = string.gsub("Application Creator: Aiden_12114", "Application Creator: ", "")
That just remove that bit of the text, it doesn’t grab it. You’d want a string pattern here; something that captures the relevant bit:
local whatever = yourString:match("Application Results: (%S+)").
The “%S” tells it to look for non-whitespace characters, the “+” tells it to look for multiple of those characters, and the parentheses tell it to capture just that bit.
More info can be found on the wiki:
https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/articles/string-patterns-reference
https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/lua-docs/string
Did you misread the string in his original post? It’s formatted more complexly, and your pattern removes part of the string rather than parsing it.
yup just tested your solution is perfect and way better
