Gettok
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This function splits a string using the given separating character and returns one specified substring.
Syntax
Required Arguments
- text: the string that should be split.
- tokenNumber: which token should be returned (1 for the first, 2 for the second, and so on).
- separatingCharacter: the ASCII number representing the character you want to use to separate the tokens. You can easily retrieve this by running string.byte on a string containing the separating character.
Returns
Returns a string containing the token if it exists, false otherwise.
Example
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ServerThis example retrieves the startskin and endskin for spawning a player from a string of two numbers "a,b"
-- Put the string with the skins in a variable. Normally you would read it from a .map file or something. local skins = "20,30" -- Get the startskin and endskin strings ("20" and "30" in this case) local startskin = gettok ( skins, 1, string.byte(',') ) local endskin = gettok ( skins, 2, string.byte(',') ) -- Get a random skin in the range local skin = math.random ( tonumber(startskin), tonumber(endskin) )
