Taking letters from a string

[tommymaster]

Hi!
After a few minutes of research i finall found a way to take out letters from a string.
This is an example:

local text = "test3"
print (text:gsub('test', ''))

It outputs " "3"    1" but i only need number 3 after the word. How may i take out the number 1 after 3 and convert "3" to number?

[Tails]

it does return just 3, print just outputs both arguments it returns.

local text = "test3test3"

local num, count = text:gsub('test', '')

print(num)
--> 33

print(count)
--> 2

 

[tommymaster]

and if for example if i have a string as variable like this: "1x5" how can i take out the "1x", and the opposite, how could i take out "x5"?

Edited January 18, 2018 by tommymaster

[URBAN]

7 hours ago, tommymaster said:

and if for example if i have a string as variable like this: "1x5" how can i take out the "1x", and the opposite, how could i take out "x5"?

https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/Split

split(string,"1x")