Just wondering, is there a way or function in Defold that is able to take a string and edit it?
For example, say I have a string "bonkeronis", and I want to get rid of "eronis" at the end. Is there anything I could do for that?
There are a lot of functions to change strings in Lua; which one to use depends on how you want to do it.
Just removing the last 6 characters:
local my_string = "bonkeronis"
-- These two mean the same thing
local shortened = string.sub(my_string, 1, -7)
local shortened = my_string:sub(1, -7)
Replacing all occurrences of "eronis" with a blank string:
local shortened = my_string:gsub("eronis", "")
Or if you want to get fancy, you can replace "eronis" only if it’s at the end of the string:
local shortened = my_string:gsub("eronis$", "")
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