Text to symbol converter

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#1

Hello!
I am currently working on creating a database type system in-game. I am looking for an effect in which after each character is typed in the password box it converts to a dot/bulletpoint however I’m not sure how to do this while also storing the value of the password to be used when authenticating the login credentials. Any ideas?

#2

You could try converting every string in there to a • so for example you say hello it converts it to ••••• , I am unsure why you need this, as this is a LocalGUI and no one else can look.

#3

This is purely a cosmetic feature to aid user experience, I will have a go at your suggestion. Many thanks!

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#4

For this you can utilise the string.rep function, this will repeat something a certain amount of time.

print("hi", 5) --prints five hi next to each other
--prints hihihihihi

So what we can do is, repeat the dots according to the number of the characters in the string, and to get the number of chars in a string, or simply its length. You can use the # operator along with the string, or you can use the string.lenwhich returns the length of the given string.

local password = "hi8766kl" --suppose this is our password

textbox.Text = string.rep("•", string.len(password)) 
--and yeah perfect 

--we can as well do this
textbox.Text = string.rep("•", #password) 
--just a side note you can only use the # if its stored in a  variable, you can't do #"hi8766kl" store it in a variable and use they key of the variable instead #password
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#5

This may not be directly on topic, but can’t you just wrap the string in parentheses if you want to use the # operator? I remember using parentheses to use :sub() on a string when I was lazy and testing something.

--Not on PC to test now

local strVar = "This is a string"
print(#strVar)

print(#("This is a string"))
#6

Oh I actually didnt know you can do this, thanks for the info!

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#7

Got another correction for you chief.

This is not correct. You actually can do this.

print(#"Yes") -- 3
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#8

Oh woah, there is a really a lot of small details I shall remember, because I did recall myself testing this out and getting it wrong welp my memory failed me

Thank you!

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