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Posted by Maxhrk USA (76 posts) Bio

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Thu 20 Dec 2007 01:25 AM (UTC)

Amended on Thu 20 Dec 2007 01:28 AM (UTC) by Maxhrk

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local replacements = { 
   ['\\'] = "\\",
}

function toreplace(s)
	local result
	if type(s) == "string" then
	result = string.gsub (s, "%a+", 
				function (str) 
					return replacements [str] 
				end)
	return result
	else
		message.console("toreplace function: it is not a string.")
	end --if
end -- toreplace

when it display on my screen like this:


trigger:^You are tempered against fire damage.$

when it supposedly display like this:


trigger:^You are tempered against fire damage\.$

how to display '\' properly?

thanks!

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Posted by Nick Gammon Australia (23,173 posts) Bio Forum Administrator

Date Reply #1 on Thu 20 Dec 2007 01:47 AM (UTC)

Message

This is unnecessarily complicated for a start.

string.gsub will accept a table as the replacements argument, and substitute something found in the table for the replacement.

eg.


t = { cat = "dog", 
      mouse = "tiger" }

print ((string.gsub ("You see a cat and a mouse", "%a+", t))) --> You see a dog and a tiger

Your second problem is that you are searching for a backslash, and if found, replacing it with a backslash. What will that achieve?

Your third problem is that you are searching for "%a+" which is alphabetic characters. Thus it will never match on backslash anyway.

Something like this will achieve what I think you are trying to do:


test = "^You are tempered against fire damage.$"

test = string.gsub (test, "[^A-Za-z0-9 ]", "\\%1")

print (test)  --> \^You are tempered against fire damage\.\$

What I am searching for here is everything that is not A-Z or 0-9, or a space, and doing the replacement. Note how the tilde and $ got replaced too.

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com

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