string.gsub Problem

[Albinix]

Hey I have a problem with "string.gsub"

tag = "-|TG|-" 
name = "-|TG|-Albinix" 
  
subtag = string.gsub(name,tag,"") 
  
outputChatBox(subtag)   -- outputs -> "|-Albinix"  

Why does it not delete the whole tag?

[Citizen]

Yeah that's strange, because I doesn't see any errors

Maybe try this:

function test( thePlayer, commandName ) 
    local tag = "-|TG|-" 
    local name = "-|TG|-Albinix" 
    local subtag = string.gsub(tostring(name),tostring(tag),"") 
    outputChatBox( tostring( subtag ) ) 
end 
addCommandHandler("test", test, false, false ) 

But it's almost the same

[Cadu12]

Try this

  
function test( thePlayer, commandName ) 
    local tag = "-%|TG|%-" 
    local name = "-|TG|-Albinix" 
    local subtag = string.gsub(tostring(name),tostring(tag),"") 
    outputChatBox( tostring( subtag ) ) 
end 
addCommandHandler("test", test, false, false ) 
  

[Zango]

It is due to the magic characters in LUA: ( ) . % + - * ? [ ^ $

These characters have special meanings when used, and they change your string

Cadu12's method works because he escapes the magic character - in your tag, by using %.

For string.find, you can set the fourth argument to true and it will disregard string magic

[Cadu12]

There is lua wiki for string.gsub

http://www.lua.org/pil/20.1.html

Lua is your friend