How to convert string to table?

CoderHusk · December 21, 2020, 7:52pm

I basically want to replicate the behavior we would see in C where strings are basically arrays. So suppose I had “Tree” that would become

{'T', 'r', 'e', 'e'}

MrNicNac · December 21, 2020, 7:55pm

local splitString: table = string.split("Hello", "")

Will return a table with all the characters separated in table values.

CoderHusk · December 21, 2020, 7:56pm

What is with the syntax after declaring the variable “splitString”? Can you elaborate?

MrNicNac · December 21, 2020, 7:56pm

It’s a Luau (Roblox syntax) type-hint for the variable definition.

CoderHusk · December 21, 2020, 7:57pm

So in roblox lua we would do

local splitString = string.split(string, "")
``` ??

MrNicNac · December 21, 2020, 7:58pm

No, you would write it exactly how I just wrote it.

CoderHusk · December 21, 2020, 7:58pm

But my paradigm isn’t luau, isn’t there a way I can do it in the non typed language?

MrNicNac · December 21, 2020, 7:58pm

It’s the same. But if you want to not use type hinting just remove the : table after the variable.

Club_Moo · December 21, 2020, 9:25pm

I think the syntax you’re asking for is this, which works:
local splitString = str:split( "" )

Pixeluted · December 22, 2020, 1:10am

This syntax is no longer working as I tried you can just do

local table = string.split(msg," ")

Club_Moo · December 22, 2020, 7:28am

Don’t confuse “string”, the library with “str”, a string variable in my example.
So in your example, my example form of syntax would be:
msg:split( "" )
(Notice the colon, not period.)