String.Find

[#Paper]

I'm working to new mapratings system, i want to get how many is rated one map

  
string.find( name, "l+") 
  

How i can get how many results there is for this string.find?

ty all!

[dzek (varez)]

explain it better as i dont understand it..

you cant to count character instances in string?

like on every vote you are adding "+" to string, then you have like "+++++++" and want to count it? this is the way i understood it.

[#Paper]

explain it better as i dont understand it..

you cant to count character instances in string?

like on every vote you are adding "+" to string, then you have like "+++++++" and want to count it? this is the way i understood it.

For example:

In a txt file I have the string with "hello" how can I do to have as many are there these strings?

[dzek (varez)]

uhm, this is a bit weird way, but the simpliest i think

  
function countWord(text, word) 
  local changed, count = string.gsub(text, word, function() end) 
  return count 
end 
  

it will work only with simple words like : "hello".

it will fail if use with chars like

  
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