Can't Use Downloaded HTML Data as a String

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1

I have my script download some HTML data, store it in a variable, and split it into segments. However, it seems as if Defold doesn’t treat the data as a string, so I can’t do things like use DefString’s “split” function. I’ve tried concatenating the data with a regular string variable, but it still doesn’t work. If you need an example program, I could put one together.

2

Could you upload an example project zip of what you are currently trying to do? This is the source of defstring’s split, I’m not sure if it could cause a problem with the HTML data. https://github.com/subsoap/defstring/blob/master/defstring/defstring.lua

function M.split(s,delimiter)
	delimiter = delimiter or '%s'
	local t={}
	local i=1
	for str in string.gmatch(s, '([^'..delimiter..']+)') do
		t[i] = str
		i = i + 1
	end
	return t
end
3

After some more investigation, I think the problem could be some of of the characters I use in defstring.replace. Since it seems like I can’t use defstring.split(my_string, "Long string", "@") without it replacing every character in “Long string”, I do this instead:

local data = defstring.replace(html_data, "<li class=\"project-list-item\">", "@")
local my_table = defstring.split(data, "@")

I’ve got an example project on the way, but it might take a bit.

4

18 hours counts a “a bit”, right? Anyways, here’s the example project. It has an interchangeable “replace.script”, which has the code from my previous post, and “no_replace.script”, which is mostly the same code, but without the defstring.replace() part.

EDIT: defstring.contains() returns true, so it’s just .replace() that’s acting up.

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