Capturing "

[Lime_Donkey]

Hi there, I have run into a slight problem with patterns or reading in what players say, as I need to be able to capture the "

for example if the player enters spawn(apple) into a textbox it will spawn an apple, but what I want is for the player to have to enter spawn("apple").

So I figure my question is.. how would I make it will capture everything within ("") instead of just ()

So far I have:

[lua] local function_name, phrase = Text:match( "([%w_{]+)%(([%w_]+)%);" );[/lua]

which works perfectly, but of course without the " "

Hope that makes sense and cheers!

[Lexic]

\"?

[Lime_Donkey]

[QUOTE=Lexic;18305426]\"?[/QUOTE]

D'oh I forgot to mention I tried that, all it did was make the player use secondary fire for some reason.. lol

[Mossman1223]

Just define the string using teh doubly bracket method. [[ stuff ]]
An added bonus is that you can have multiple lines in one string. [[stuff
ZOMG A NEW LINE11111! ]]
Hope that helps

[Crazy Quebec]

[lua]'Look! I am "matching" double quotes!'[/lua]

Untested but it might work! :ninja:

[Nori]

Here's a function I wrote for Theo to get arguments from a chat command. Perhaps you can apply it to your situation somehow.
[lua]
local function ChatVariables(text)

local subtext = string.Explode(" ", text);
local vars = {};

-- Now that we've got our variables, we need to combine things that have quotes around them
while #subtext > 0 do

local startVar = 0;
local endVar = 0;

for k,v in pairs(subtext) do

if endVar == 0 then
if string.sub(v, 1, 1) == "\"" and startVar == 0 then
-- This is the start of a var.
startVar = k;
end

if string.sub(v, 1, 1) != "\"" and startVar == 0 and endVar == 0 then
startVar = k;
endVar = k;
end

if string.sub(v, string.len(v), string.len(v)) == "\"" and startVar != 0 then
-- This is the end of a var.
endVar = k;
end

if k == #subtext and startVar != 0 then
-- It's the end of the entire string, SOMEBODY forgot a quote!
endVar = k;
end

end

end
if startVar != 0 and endVar != 0 then
local diff = endVar - startVar;
local var = "";
for i=0,diff do
var = var .. string.gsub(subtext[startVar+i], "\"", "") .. " ";
end
for i=0,diff do
table.remove(subtext, endVar-i);
end
table.insert(vars, string.sub(var, 1, string.len(var) - 1));
end

end

return vars;

end
[/lua]
So say for example you put in !command "asdf" asdf "asdf asdf", you would get the variables asdf, asdf, and asdf asdf. You have to pass only what comes after "!command " though.

[Lime_Donkey]

Thanks for all the replies, I have worked out a way to do it now <3

[Lexic]

[QUOTE=Nori;18308738]Here's a function I wrote for Theo to get arguments from a chat command. Perhaps you can apply it to your situation somehow.
[lua]
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[/lua]
So say for example you put in !command "asdf" asdf "asdf asdf", you would get the variables asdf, asdf, and asdf asdf. You have to pass only what comes after "!command " though.[/QUOTE]
[lua] local quote = text:sub(1,1) ~= '"'
local tab = {}
for chunk in text:gmatch'[^"]+' do
quote = not quote
if quote then
table.insert(tab,chunk)
else
for chunk in chunk:gmatch"%a+" do
table.insert(tab,chunk)
end
end
end[/lua]

[Nori]

I know absolutely nothing about gmatch so thanks a bunch for that. :smile: