String.match duplicate help

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1

So I’m working on my own admin commands, but I stumbled upon a problem

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so basically if the string is trying to find “health” it finds my other command “heal”, I tried to look for some solutions but couldn’t be backed by 1, any help here would be appreciated, thanks

3

If I consider health the first elseif then it the other command wouldn’t function because it would just get the first command

4

If the goal is an exact match you don’t really need match, you can just compare “textstringye” to the concatenated prefix and string. I would also use the string’s library’s lower function so that it doesn’t matter how things are capitalized.

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5

There is more characters to the string, basically “:health me 50”, I already tried using string.sub but that still didn’t work for me for some reason

And using string.find just gives me the same issue

6

Here is some pseudo-code where you write health under the first match:

if match(heal) then
  if match(health) then
    > run health command
  else
    > run heal command
  end
end

You can also just run multiple checks against the string to check which one is correct using and.

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7

Even tho it’s a minor issue, my brain couldn’t think of that for some reason

appreciate you

8

You could also just switch the order of the elseif conditional checks.

heal is contained within health but not vice versa.

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9

As I said, that would still make the same issue, the other elseif under it wouldn’t work, I already figured it out so ye

10

No it wouldn’t, take the following for example.

local word = "healths"

if word:match("heal") then
	print("1")
elseif word:match("health") then
	print("2")
end

local word = "healths"

if word:match("health") then
	print("1")
elseif word:match("heal") then
	print("2")
end

In both cases 1 is printed.

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