How to remove comma, dots etc from a string and get a table of words

wesley931 · February 7, 2021, 10:09pm

Hello im trying to make a response bot whenever a player chats. But the problem im currently facing is that I cant figure out how to remove all special characters from the string and then returning a table.

Example:
Msg: “This is, a test message!”

Then having the table as following.
Table {“This”, “is”, “a”, “test”, “message”}

I can remove the spaces but the special characters stays with the words.

JarodOfOrbiter · February 7, 2021, 10:11pm

The simple way is with regular expressions.

local filtered = string.gsub(message, "[^%w ]", "") – fixed it

sjr04 · February 7, 2021, 10:13pm

Use the pattern "%p" to remove any punctuation

local str = "This is, a test message!"
local tbl = string.split(str:gsub("%p", ""), " ")
print(tbl)

wesley931 · February 7, 2021, 10:54pm

Thank you for the comments I will try it out tomorrow.