I’m trying to create my own RichText system, and I am using string.split to split a message into seperate words, however I can’t get it to keep the spaces as well
local Text = "Hello <Font=GothamBold>World"
string.split(Text, " ")
Returns
1 Text
2 <Font=GothamBold>
3 World
I’m then using
local MarkupKey, MarkupValue = string.match(word, "<(.+)=(.+)>")
To locate anything with <> (in my example, <Font=GothamBold> as I want to have these words ignored.
But I still want a space between Hello and World, atm it’s not getting a space.
Save your split in a table. Perform table.remove on any indices that match your tag pattern. Then do table.concat with a space as the delimiter on what’s left.
I still want to be able to get any markups tho <>?? As well is it being in a table format
-- Split text up
local SplitText = string.split(text, " ")
for i, word in pairs(SplitText) do
local MarkupKey, MarkupValue = string.match(word, "<(.+)=(.+)>")
if MarkupKey and MarkupValue then
-- Markup found
if not ApplyMarkup(MarkupKey, MarkupValue) then
-- Invalid markup
warn("Could not apply markup: ", word)
end
else
-- No markup, print text as normal
PrintText(word)
end
end
ApplyMarkup function handles the markups. Basically MarkupKey and MarkupValue should be
Font GothamBold
And then I can do if key == Font then do font stuff with value. If value == / then revert the key back to the default settings I have stored.
A longer text example
local Text = "Hello <Font=GothamBold><Yield=2> World!<Font=/>"
I want to result as
Hello World!
*Yield will basically delay how long before showing the text after it. So Hello (wait 2 seconds) World!
But because I’m creating each letter as a separate textlabel. I’m also creating a textlabel for the word (the text stays invisible, but more a holder to show what the text would be
Edit: Don’t use this version of the parser, it’s not as good as the one I posted below.
Great! This helps a lot. In which case it sounds like you’re trying to create a list of words separated by tags. Personally I would handle this using a custom iterator:
local function parse(markup)
local snippets = markup:gsub("%b<>", "<>"):split("<>")
local iterator = ("<>" .. markup):gmatch("%b<>")
return function (lastTag, lastSnippet)
return iterator(lastTag), table.remove(snippets, 1)
end
end
for tag, text in parse(text) do
if tag then
local key, value = tag:match("<(.+)=(.+)>")
-- handle markup
end
-- handle text after markup
end
The iterator parse puts your text into tag, text pairs for you to handle as required. For example, the output of the string "Hello <Font=GothamBold><Yield=2> World!<Font=/>" would be:
for tag, text in Parse(text) do
if tag then
print(tag, text)
local key, value = string.match(tag, "<(.+)=(.+)>")
if key and value then
if not ApplyMarkup(key, value) then
-- Invalid markup
warn("Could not apply markup: ", text)
end
else
PrintText(text)
end
end
-- handle text after markup
end
Okay, I thought about this some more and I came up with a nicer iterator for this. Rather than trying to separate out text as its own thing, it converts text into its own tag. So the string:
Then it’s just as simple as reading each tag one-by-one.
for tag, key, value in parseV2(text) do
if key == "Text" then
-- do text stuff
else
-- do other stuff
end
end
The iterator is as follows:
local function parseV2(markup)
local formattedMarkup = ("<Text=" .. markup:gsub("%b<>", ">%1<Text=") .. ">")
local iterator = formattedMarkup:gmatch("%b<>")
return function (lastTag)
local nextTag = iterator(lastTag)
if nextTag == nil then
return nil
end
return nextTag, nextTag:match("<(.*)=(.*)>")
end
end
It between tests I was thinking though, the main reason I’m writing my own is because I’ve been using Defaultio’s one (I’ve taken bits and pieces of his and rewritten it in my own kinda way) is because I want to control certain things at certain periods in the string.
If I have this for example
local Text = "You are. <Yield=0.5>.<Yield=0.5>.<Yield=1>CORRECT!<Emote=Happy><Sound=Correct>"
The problem with his one was that it was collecting all this before and so the emote happy was occuring before the actual text had finished. So I was thinking if it would be better to have 2 tag systems??
<> - for anything relating to the text (such as Font, Color, Size, etc.)
** - anything to related to a timed thing, like animations, emotes, sounds, etc.
And so I’d have it go through the string. Remove all **. Then find any <>, apply markups to the text. Then when I’m displaying the text later on, look for ** and have it apply the markups for those when that set of text appears on screen?
This is because it adds empty text tags to the original markup between existing tags. To fix this, you can change the iterator to:
local function parseV3(markup)
local formattedMarkup = ("<Text=" .. markup:gsub("%b<>", ">%1<Text=") .. ">")
local iterator = formattedMarkup:gmatch("%b<>")
return function (tag, key, value)
repeat
tag = iterator(tag)
if not tag then
return nil, nil, nil
end
key, value = tag:match("<(.+)=(.+)>")
until key and value
return tag, key, value
end
end
This will skip over invalid tags (those with an empty key and value).
