How do i delete a specific index in a string

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#1

so you can do string.split right?
you can do MyString[1] right?
Houw would i go about removing MyString[1]?
So removing the first word in a string
For example
String.Remove(MyString, “DeleteThis”) --(This function was just made up)
Thanks!

#2

I don’t think I am quite understanding, but are you trying to delete a string value or the whole thing?

To delete what’s in the string value do string.Value = ""

To delete the whole string do string:Destroy()

I Don’t think that’s a function in Roblox studio.

#3

i want do do this:
“I Had a Alright Day”
do what i want here
“Had A Alright Day”
do it again
“A Alright Day”

I wanna delete the first word

#4

Alright, to do this do something like this:
Here is an example

-- Function to remove the first word from a string
function removeFirstWord(s)
    local words = {}
    for word in s:gmatch("%S+") do
        table.insert(words, word)
    end
    table.remove(words, 1)
    return table.concat(words, " ")
end

-- Example usage:
local string = "I Had an Alright Day"

-- Remove the first word once
local result1 = removeFirstWord(string)
print(result1)  -- Output: "Had an Alright Day"

-- Remove the first word again
local result2 = removeFirstWord(result1)
print(result2)  -- Output: "An Alright Day"

-- Remove the first word again
local result3 = removeFirstWord(result2)
print(result3)  -- Output: "Alright Day"
#5

You can achieve this by using string.sub which is a function allowing us to cut strings:

local function removeIndex(s: string, i: number): string
	return s:sub(1, i-1)..s:sub(i+1, s:len())
end

print(removeIndex("hello", 1)) --ello
print(removeIndex("world", 4)) --word
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#6

could use string.gsub with a string pattern

something like this would probably work idk string patterns are annoying

local newString = string.gsub(targetString, "%w+%s", "", 1)
#7

i forgot to mention i fixed it, there were diffrent if statements to delete diffrent words so i just deleted the first few letters

#8

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