Lua Syntax Help

[OminousVibes0 (OminousVibes)]

Hello,

I am trying to make an in-game script editor, and I am using a lexer by boatbomber:

Lexer for RBX Lua

Sorry for bumping this very old post, but I never stopped working on this! It’s a major part of my game Lua Learning so I kept making little tweaks. @pobammer made some optimizations, making it noticeably faster. I also updated the builtin dictionary to include the changes that Roblox has made over time! Major Update August 6th 2020: Huge rework to make improvements to lexer behavior. It used to return operators and unknowns as tokens themselves, so your implementation had to handle rando…

However, I’m having trouble coloring the text with RichText, as it repetetively bugs out. Any suggestions for string methods to use?

[VortexColor]

So yeah. So basically what you do is you have the input box have invisible text.
Then have a textlabel which is below the input box and there you put the RichText.

For each token the parser returns you need to wrap that in richtext tags.
And if you wan’t to prevent issues you need to sanitise the tokens returned by the parser.

[OminousVibes0 (OminousVibes)]

Ah yes, that is what I am doing, however. The issue is that when I am using richtext tags on operators, it gets extremely buggy. I was wondering what other string methods would be better for this usecase.