Lua [TFS 1.3] How to only display value if different than zero? And plural

[Evil Puncker]

Hi everyone, currently the script bellow displays the following:

Elapsed time: 0 days, 0 hours, 13 minutes."

how do I make it not display the days and hours if they are zero? like this:

Elapsed time: 13 minutes."

and if you could add singular and plural (1 hours > 1 hour), even better

    local str = ""
    local secs = ""
    secs = 1554654 -- fictional value
    -- converting secs --
    local hours = math.ceil(secs / 3600) - 1
    local minutes = math.ceil((secs - (3600 * hours)) / 60)
    if (minutes == 60) then
        minutes = 0
        hours = hours + 1
    end
    local days = math.ceil(hours / 24) - 1
    hours = math.ceil(hours - (24 * days))
    if (hours == 24) then
        hours = 0
        days = days + 1
    end
    -- end of conversion --
    str = "Elapsed time: ".. days .." days, ".. hours .." hours, ".. minutes .." minutes."
    player:sendTextMessage(MESSAGE_STATUS_CONSOLE_ORANGE, str)
    return true

 

[gudan garam]

local str = ""
local secs = ""
secs = 1554654 -- fictional value

-- converting secs --
local hours = math.ceil(secs / 3600) - 1

local minutes = math.ceil((secs - (3600 * hours)) / 60)

if (minutes == 60) then
    minutes = 0
    hours = hours + 1
end

local days = math.ceil(hours / 24) - 1
hours = math.ceil(hours - (24 * days))

if (hours == 24) then
    hours = 0
    days = days + 1
end

-- end of conversion --

str = "Elapsed time:"

if days > 0 then
    str = str .. " " .. days .. " " .. (days > 1 and "days" or "day")
    if hours > 0 or minutes > 0 then
        str = str .. ","
    end
end

if hours > 0 then
    str = str .. " " .. hours .. " " .. (hours > 1 and "hours" or "hour")
    if minutes > 0 then
        str = str .. ","
    end
end


if minutes > 0 then
    str = str .. " " .. minutes .. " " .. (minutes > 1 and "hours" or "minute")
end

str = str .. "."

player:sendTextMessage(MESSAGE_STATUS_CONSOLE_ORANGE, str)

return true

 

[Sarah Wesker]

Use my small function

format_time(seconds)

function format_time(seconds)
    if seconds <= 0 then
        return '0s'
    end
    local days = math.floor(seconds / 86400)
    seconds = (seconds % 86400)
    local hours = math.floor(seconds / 3600)
    seconds = (seconds % 3600)
    local minutes = math.floor(seconds / 60)
    seconds = (seconds % 60)
    local formated = ''
    if days > 0 then
        formated = ("%s%ud"):format(formated, days)
    end
    if hours > 0 then
        if days > 0 then
            formated = formated .. ":"
        end
        formated = ("%s%uh"):format(formated, hours)
    end
    if minutes > 0 then
        if hours > 0 then
            formated = formated .. ":"
        end
        formated = ("%s%um"):format(formated, minutes)
    end
    if seconds > 0 then
        if minutes > 0 then
            formated = formated .. ":"
        end
        formated = ("%s%us"):format(formated, seconds)
    end
    return formated
end

example of use:

print(format_time(25888888))
-- result: 299d:15h:21m:28s

print(format_time(357))
-- result: 5m:57s