Think 'Malformed Pattern'

Garry's Mod coding
#1

I’m getting spammed this error in my console on the Think function:



ERROR: GAMEMODE:'Think' Failed: TestScript1\gamemode\cl_think.lua:128: malformed pattern (missing ']')

The line that is causing it is:
[lua]
elseif( string.find( ChatVGUI.TextEntry:GetValue(), “[[” ) ) then
[/lua]

It thinks I’m missing a ‘]’ but I’m not trying to do any pattern of any sort. Is there a way around this?

#2

Use the [ escape code to generate a [ instead.


elseif( string.find( ChatVGUI.TextEntry:GetValue(), "\[\[" ) ) then
#3

I still seem to be getting the error, that didn’t help/do anything.

#4

What is this check being used for?

#5

It prints in the console if the person has that value/string in their chat.

#6

Are you checking for the characters so that you can remove them?

If so, use something like this:


local BadChars = {"[", "%"}

function string.escape(str)
	local rstr = ""
	
	for k in (string.gmatch(str, ".")) do
		for x, y in pairs(BadChars) do
			if (y == k) then
				k = ""
				break
			end
		end
		
		rstr = rstr..k
	end
	
	return rstr
end
#7

%[%[?

#8

Yes, that should work.

#9

…
string.find( ChatVGUI.TextEntry:GetValue(), “[[”, 1, true )
Why overcomplicate things?