Separating a table in a string with commas [ String Manipulation ]

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Hello ! I’m currently learning the bases of string manipulation, pretty interesting though !

However, I have an issue/question.

How can I form a string from a table separated with commas?

Example :

> local table = {"string1","string2"}
> local formattedString = ""
>
> print(formattedString)

(wanted) output:

string1,string2

I hope to have an answer quickly!

2

If you wanted to convert a table into a string you could do this:

local newstring = ""
for i, v in pairs(table) do
    if i > 1 then
        newstring = newstring .. ", "
    end
    newstring = newstring .. tostring(v)
end
print(newstring)

If you wanted to convert the string back into a table you could do this:

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

When I use the variable “table” or “string” you should convert those into your tables and strings with different names.

3

You could simplify this by using the table method that pretty much does exactly that:

local tab = {"X", "Y", "Z"}
print(table.concat(tab, ", "))
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4

Sorry for the late response ;

That’s exactly what I was looking for, I think I’ll use table concatenatation method often !

Thanks C#per

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