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[Cranium]

I am looking for where I can find the string.match() inputs(?) like %d+ , %a+, and the such, and what they mean. The purpose of this is to create a calculator within CC. I need to do string separation, but I don't know how. Anyone know where I can get a library of those or an easy to follow tutorial?

[Grim Reaper]

Check out this link.

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[Cranium]

Also found(with extensive googling and CTRL+F'ing) this: http://www.lua.org/m...5.1/manual.html
Section 5.4.1 tells me exactly what I needed.

[Pharap]

• x: (where x is not one of the magic characters ^$()%.[]*+-?) represents the character x itself.
  
• .: (a dot) represents all characters.
  
• %a: represents all letters.
  
• %c: represents all control characters.
  
• %d: represents all digits.
  
• %l: represents all lowercase letters.
  
• %p: represents all punctuation characters.
  
• %s: represents all space characters.
  
• %u: represents all uppercase letters.
  
• %w: represents all alphanumeric characters.
  
• %x: represents all hexadecimal digits.
  
• %z: represents the character with representation 0.
  
• %x: (where x is any non-alphanumeric character) represents the character x. This is the standard way to escape the magic characters. Any punctuation character (even the non magic) can be preceded by a '%' when used to represent itself in a pattern.

Copied straight from lua.org (it was very hard to find in amongst all the text)

[Cranium]

That's why I had to use CTRL + F so much... Google doesn't like searching for them...

[Pharap]

craniumkid22, on 17 August 2012 - 10:12 PM, said:

That's why I had to use CTRL + F so much... Google doesn't like searching for them...

You'd think they could make it easier to read with a bit of JavaScript and a rewrite or something.

[Lyqyd]

Or you can use the index, and then scroll down to where it says "String Manipulation" and click on the subitem "Patterns".

[Cranium]

Well, with no coding history beyond Lua in CC, I had no idea what it was I was looking for(name), but I knew what I was looking for(characters).... That sounds illogical, doesn't it?