string.find question

[GuyFromPast]

Is it possible to make it ignore upper letters ? like if the word is HELLO then its same as hello and will find same result... thanks for any kind of help

[qaisjp]

Here is my function called decodeAndFindString.

  
function decodeAndFindString(theString, takeOut) 
    if tostring(theString) and tostring(toFind) then 
        return string.find(string.lower(tostring(theString):gsub('#%x%x%x%x%x%x', '')), tostring(toFind)) 
    end 
end 
  
  

decodeAndFindString(string, find)

String is what we are trying to find something in and Find is what we are trying to find.

For example if decodeAndFindString("UpperLowerHAPPYpLaYeR", "player")

It will return true 'cos it found player.

string.lower(string) converts to lowercase

string.upper(string) converts to uppercase