How do i get the part before the vertical bar in a string

[ReplicaService]

Hey Devs, i’m 100% sure this is possible, how can i get the part behind the vertical bar using string.match?

[steven4547466 (Steven)]

This should be in #help-and-feedback:scripting-support

But string.split(str, " | ")[1] would get everything before the vertical bar.

[ReplicaService]

I want to use string.match though how can i do that?

[steven4547466 (Steven)]

You could use string.match(str, ".* |"), but it will include the vertical bar in the output…

[jonbyte (Jon)]

I believe you can solve this with captures:
string.match(str, "(.*) |")

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You can also get the thing before and after the vertical bar in one go using captures: