Replace char in nickname

[DakiLLa]

hi there. i got one problem:

i have next:

addCommandHandler( "test", 
  function ( player ) 
    local name = getPlayerName( player ); 
    local i = string.find( name, "|", 1, plain ); 
    if i then 
      outputChatBox( "You got a char '|' in "..i.." index" ); 
    end; 
  end 
); 

if i have a '|' symbol in playername, then how can i replace it, if i know it's index position?

[Lordy]

You can just use string.gsub to replace any occurrences of | if you want and you don't need to have the index position.

http://lua-users.org/wiki/StringLibraryTutorial

  
addCommandHandler("test", 
    function (player) 
        local nick = getPlayerName(player) 
        local newnick = string.gsub(nick,"|","") -- searches for | and replaces with nothing, eg removes them 
        setPlayerName(player, newnick) 
    end 
) 
  

Took the function names and syntax from memory so they might have some faults. But just for you to see.

EDIT: Also in your code, the last argument of string.find has to be boolean (true or false), you just have 'plain' (eg a nil value)

[DakiLLa]

works good. thanks a lot