Capitals detection

[.:HyPeX:.]

wich function can detect capitals in player's chat, or how can i detect them?

[myonlake]

Well you can use this to get the uppercase letters.

Should work, tested on Lua demo.

function getUppercaseLetters(string) 
 local wow = "" 
 for i=0,string.len(string) do -- Do for each letter 
  local string_ = string.sub(string, i, i) -- Get the letter 
  if(string.find(string_, "%u")) then -- Check if it's uppercase 
   wow = wow .. string_ -- Add to result 
  end 
 end 
 return wow -- Return the uppercase string 
end 

So in action it would probably be like:

addEventHandler("onPlayerChat", root, -- When someone says something 
 function(message, messageType) 
  if(getUppercaseLetters(message) ~= "") then -- If there are any uppercase strings 
   outputDebugString("Used uppercase letters: '" .. getUppercaseLetters(message) .. "'.") -- Print a message 
  end 
 end 
) 
  

Edited September 14, 2013 by Guest

[.:HyPeX:.]

Thanks!, i was also thinking of detecting letter by letter (since mta is uppercase-sensitive), but this will make it easier.

[myonlake]

You're welcome. Feel free to make it as you want it.

[.:HyPeX:.]

by the way, where i can find those variables of the find? there you used "%u", where i can find all the values lua has? i couldnt find them on the lua reference manual (wich is linked from here).

[myonlake]

by the way, where i can find those variables of the find? there you used "%u", where i can find all the values lua has? i couldnt find them on the lua reference manual (wich is linked from here).

Found the %u thingy here »

I did know most of those before too, but then I was wondering what other ones there are.

[ixjf]

You need to improve some aspects in your function, namely variables (local variables are recommended) and concatenation (table concatenation is faster).

[.:HyPeX:.]

thanks for the list, bookmarked!

[myonlake]

You need to improve some aspects in your function, namely variables (local variables are recommended) and concatenation (table concatenation is faster).

Even though concatenation is easy to do, I suppose we're not talking about long paragraphs, so I doubt the speed is a common factor for his use. Changed to local variables as suggested.