Check if String starts with "Models/Player"

[Brodster55]

How would I check if a string starts with "Models/Player"?

[Chessnut]

[lua]
if (string.sub(string here, 1, 13) == "models/player") then
-- Blah blah blah
end;
[/lua]

[E X C L]

If you want to check if it [i]starts[/i] with it you should use string.Left.
[lua]
if string.Left(string here,string.len(stringwecheck)) == stringwecheck then
...
end
[/lua]

[Wizard of Ass]

[QUOTE=_NewBee;34590129]If you want to check if it [i]starts[/i] with it you should use string.Left.
[lua]
if string.Left(string here,string.len(stringwecheck)) == stringwecheck then
...
end
[/lua][/QUOTE]

You shouldn't, string.left is just a wrapper for string.sub, also if the string length is constant there is no need to get the length.

[Megolas]

also, if you mean it start either with models or player, you can easly change it into

if string.sub(1,6) == "models" or string.sub(1,6) == "player" then
 -- execute code
end

Yet, if youre going to sue these kind of code a lot, you can simply make a function that works like this:

function either(s_table,stringc)
for _,v in pairs(s_table) do
 if string.sub(1,string.len(v)) == v then
return true, v
end
end
end

where s_table is a table holding the string ({"models","player"}) and stringc is the checked string

the function returns two value - the first holding a boolean value - whether the string was changed or not and the second saying which string did it hold

Also - this post is useless if you meant it starts with "models/player" and not "models or player"