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How to Remove A Portion of a String After a Delimiter

Started by TehTotalPwnage, Dec 21 2015 08:24 PM

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#1 TehTotalPwnage

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Posted 21 December 2015 - 08:24 PM

I'm writing a program and I need to process a string so that when a certain character is detected, then the character and the rest of the string after it is removed. For example:

s = somestring/somedelimiter.randomcharacters12345

If I use / as a delimiter, the only thing that should be kept is:

somestring

How would I accomplish this in LUA?

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#2 Dog

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Posted 21 December 2015 - 08:39 PM

I *think* this will do it for you - untested...

local yourString = "somestring/somedelimiter.randomcharacters12345"
local s = yourString:sub(1, yourString:find("/") - 1)

Edited by Dog, 21 December 2015 - 08:41 PM.

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#3 TehTotalPwnage

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Posted 21 December 2015 - 08:45 PM

Dog, on 21 December 2015 - 08:39 PM, said:

I *think* this will do it for you - untested...

local yourString = "somestring/somedelimiter.randomcharacters12345"
local s = yourString:sub(1, yourString:find("/") - 1)

Just tested it on the LUA interactive command line on my system. The code works fine. Thanks!

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