Jul 22, 2017 · I would like to extract the last N characters from a Lua string. What way I could use to achieve this?

45 If you are splitting a string in Lua, you should try the string.gmatch () or string.sub () methods. Use the string.sub () method if you know the index you wish to split the string at, or use the …

Mar 31, 2017 · Lua unicode, using string.sub () with two-byted chars Asked 8 years, 5 months ago Modified 4 years, 10 months ago Viewed 5k times

I have a string in Lua and want to iterate individual characters in it. But no code I've tried works and the official manual only shows how to find and replace substrings :( str = "abcd" for char ...

Sep 14, 2016 · Lua strings are strings of bytes, not strings of characters. ASCII characters are 1 byte long, but most other characters consume multiple bytes, so using string.sub() isn't going …

Jul 23, 2020 · In all the Lua definitions of string.sub I could not find what it returns when the end index is positive yet less than than the initial index. For example, will string.sub (someString, 3, …

Given a string s in Lua: s = "abc123" If the string is non-empty, I want to store the first character of this string in a variable s1, else store nothing. I've tried the following, but b...

Oct 30, 2024 · in Lua you can use string.sub to create a substring that removes the prefix. The call string.sub (s,i,j) extracts a piece of the string s, from the i-th to the j-th character inclusive.

Jul 17, 2014 · I have the following code: text = "sometext" print( string.sub(text, ( #text - 1 )) ) I want delete the last character in text.

Oct 6, 2018 · He unfortunately believes that easy questions should be answered in comments, so that the Lua tag's list of "unanswered" questions is utterly useless for finding questions that are …