Lua how find string on monster name?

[beenii]

i try

if string.find(""..target:getName().."", "[Legendary]") then

but dont work xD

i want find if monster name contain [Legendary]

 

[president vankk]

local string = "[Legendary] Some shit"
if string.find(string, "[Legendary]") then
    print("The monster is Legendary.")
else
    print("The monster isn't Legendary.")
end

 

[beenii]

local string = "[Legendary] Some shit"
if string.find(string, "[Legendary]") then
    print("The monster is Legendary.")
else
    print("The monster isn't Legendary.")
end

all monsters print "The monster is legendary" xD

 

[Frija]

To escape special characters in pattern matching you need to use "%" sign.

local string = "[Legendary] Some shit"
if string.find(string, "%[Legendary%]") then
    print("The monster is Legendary.")
else
    print("The monster isn't Legendary.")
end

 

[beenii]

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the problem was the capital letter of the beginning

 

[Infernum]

pls do not name the variable "string", it gets confusing when you want to use string library but then pass string as a variable name
either way that should work, the escape pattern is correct
if your monster is named [Legendary] Orc or something it should work

 

[beenii]

pls do not name the variable "string", it gets confusing when you want to use string library but then pass string as a variable name
either way that should work, the escape pattern is correct
if your monster is named [Legendary] Orc or something it should work

I used a call to the name of the monster, and there I saw that the problem was the capital letter of the beginning thanks all

 

[Random Number]

pls do not name the variable "string", it gets confusing when you want to use string library but then pass string as a variable name
either way that should work, the escape pattern is correct
if your monster is named [Legendary] Orc or something it should work

Well string isn't a keyword, reserved word or library, its a metatable see :

for k, v in pairs(string) do
      print(k, type(v))
end

Lua: demo

unpack    function
len    function
match    function
gsub    function
format    function
rep    function
sub    function
packsize    function
lower    function
dump    function
byte    function
char    function
find    function
upper    function
pack    function
reverse    function
gmatch    function

 

[Raggaer]

Well string isn't a keyword, reserved word or library, its a metatable see :

for k, v in pairs(string) do
      print(k, type(v))
end

Lua: demo

unpack    function
len    function
match    function
gsub    function
format    function
rep    function
sub    function
packsize    function
lower    function
dump    function
byte    function
char    function
find    function
upper    function
pack    function
reverse    function
gmatch    function

Ty for code

 

[Random Number]

Ty for code

My pleasure

 

[Infernum]

it seems as if you completely forgot (or never knew in the first place) what metatables are
string is a library, which is a regular table, not a metatable (see how your code to correct me only prints out the function name and then the function address, not any metamethods)
strings themselves ("abc") have metatables set to them with __index being string so you can use methods from the string library

here's some code for you

-- an actual metatable being printed
for k, v in pairs(getmetatable("")) do
    print(k, v)
end

output:

__index    table: 001D94D8

Lua: demo

 

[Random Number]

it seems as if you completely forgot (or never knew in the first place) what metatables are
string is a library, which is a regular table, not a metatable (see how your code to correct me only prints out the function name and then the function address, not any metamethods)
strings themselves ("abc") have metatables set to them with __index being string so you can use methods from the string library

here's some code for you

-- an actual metatable being printed
for k, v in pairs(getmetatable("")) do
    print(k, v)
end

output:

__index    table: 001D94D8

Lua: demo

Congrats on your doodle... only took you an hour to make

 

[Infernum]

Congrats on your doodle... only took you an hour to make

aff you got me

 

[tokenzz]

Congrats on your doodle... only took you an hour to make

what's the problem with that? o,o

gotta sound smart because someone corrected you? :s

plx no excuse you are god coder we all know you are the one and only programmer in here. professor in computer science at the same time i suppose aff

 

[Raggaer]

why codex no ban?