How To Substitute Text For Variables?

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#1

Hey Developers!

I am trying to use values to fill in some blanks for this project. I haven’t found an answer searching the interwebs, so I thought I’d ask.

Here are the values I plan to reference:
Blanks_To_Fill

ZoneType will be targeting a text label. At the moment, I want to have ZoneName take the values above it (in a ZonePrefix, ZoneIDNumber order) all within its own text label and use it to change the Vz_Unassigned and ZoneName (Ex: Vz34A) break down: ZonePrefix, ZoneIDNumber, ZoneSuffix.

I do know about table.concat and string.format(). Basically those are not hardset (except: ZonePrefix and ZoneSuffix) values, they are customizable based on the user’s needs.

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#2

I might be understanding this totally wrong, but, can’t you like just

ZoneName.Text = ZonePrefix.Value .. ", "..  tostring(ZoneIDNumber.Value) .. ", ".. tostringZoneSuffix.Value

(i’m not sure if ZonePrefix and ZoneSuffix are string values)

#3

Yes, ZonePrefix and ZoneSuffix are string values, but as the value ZoneIDNumber states, it is a (Number) IntValue.

#4

Ok I see, and is what I said right? Is that what you were asking for?

#5

If you didn’t use .Value I the definitions, use @starmaq’s method, but just put .Value after each value.

Hope this helped!

#6

Ohh yap sorry I suck sometimes xd

#7

So, I got this far:

ZoneName.Text = ZonePrefix.Value … “, Vz”… tostring(ZoneIDNumber.Value) … ", "… tostring(ZoneSuffix.Value)

I guess the commas threw me off :frowning:

EDIT: After playing around with your solution, I figured it out!

Thank you!

#8

If it worked, make sure to mark the solution! Good job on figuring it out! :smile:

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#9

Thanks! I recommend checking out more on string manipulation

#10

Thabks a lot for being supportive!

#11

Will do! I sorta have been since I’ve hit that particular road block, any suggested articles?

#12

https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/lua-docs/string
This has almost all of the functions you can use on strings, it explains them very briefly sadly, but I’m sure some youtube videos will do