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[houseofkraft]

Hi Guys!

I was wondering how to make some kind of while true do loop that cycles through the chars one by one in a string (variable)

Thanks!

- House

[Dog]

You don't need a while/do loop - this should work for you...

local word = "Test" --# test string
for i = 1, #word do --# start a loop that iterates as many times as there are letters in the test string
  print(word:sub(i, i)) --# print a string.sub() of the test string (printing only the letter the loop is currently on)
end

[H4X0RZ]

Dog, on 10 November 2016 - 02:00 AM, said:

You don't need a while/do loop - this should work for you...

local word = "Test" --# test string
for i = 1, #word do --# start a loop that iterates as many times as there are letters in the test string
  print(word:sub(i, i)) --# print a string.sub() of the test string (printing only the letter the loop is currently on)
end

There's this too

local text = "Hello World"
for char in text:gmatch "." do
 print(char)
end

But it all comes down to personal preference.

Edited by H4X0RZ, 10 November 2016 - 06:07 AM.

[Admicos]

H4X0RZ, on 10 November 2016 - 06:06 AM, said:

Dog, on 10 November 2016 - 02:00 AM, said:

You don't need a while/do loop - this should work for you...

local word = "Test" --# test string
for i = 1, #word do --# start a loop that iterates as many times as there are letters in the test string
  print(word:sub(i, i)) --# print a string.sub() of the test string (printing only the letter the loop is currently on)
end

There's this too

local text = "Hello World"
for char in text:gmatch "." do
print(char)
end

But it all comes down to personal preference.

And this:

a = "some string"
a:gsub(".", function(char)
    print(char)
end)