Separating a string with a new line "Help Required"

[-ffs-AbodyRulez]

I'm scripting a GUI memo, but i want when someone inserts a string that contains maybe more than 10 words to separate them in a new line.

For example the user entered this input:

"Hello my name is Abdullah and i'm a member in ffs community."

a for loop that will count the spaces if they == 11 and separate with a new line \n, so the output should be:

"Hello my name is Abdullah and i'm a member in ffs

community."

thank you.

[TrapLord Studios™]

Use if string ( >10 ) then

[-ffs-AbodyRulez]

lmao, thanks for this easy trick

[-ffs-AbodyRulez]

Wait i'm a bit lost here..

  
if (string(text) > 10) then text = text.."\n" ?  
  

[Bonsai]

If the string is longer than 10 then you just use string.sup, grab the symbols from 1 to 10, insert a \n and append the rest of the string by doing string.sup from 11 to end.

You might have to repeat this if the string need more than 2 lines.

[-ffs-AbodyRulez]

For a start I've created a function but i'm not sure how to finish it.

function separatingLine(text) 
  
for(i = 0; i < string(text); i++){ 
    if( string(text) > 10) then 
  
     
} 
     
end 

[xXMADEXx]

  -ffs-AbodyRulez said:

For a start I've created a function but i'm not sure how to finish it.

function separatingLine(text) 
  
for(i = 0; i < string(text); i++){ 
    if( string(text) > 10) then 
  
     
} 
     
end 

Lua isn't like programming languages.. I think I figured out what you were trying to do, but i'm not sure...

function separatingLine(text) 
    local i = 0 
    while ( i < string.len ( text ) ) do 
         
        -- your code 
         
        i = i + 1 
    end  
end 

[-ffs-AbodyRulez]

xXMADEXx

the for loop is totally not my problem.. the problem is -- your code part

[Tete omar]

Here you go:

function separateString ( str ) 
    local formattedStr = "" 
    while #str ~= 0 do 
        local newline = str:sub ( 1, 11 ) 
        str = str:gsub ( newline, "" ) 
        formattedStr = formattedStr .. newline .. "\n" 
        if ( #str == 0 ) then 
            formattedStr = formattedStr:gsub ( "%\n$", "" ) 
        end 
    end 
    return formattedStr 
end 

[-ffs-AbodyRulez]

Thank you Tete, i didn't understand your code actually, but i've tried something and it worked for me i guess.

  
text = 1234567890 
text = string.sub(text,1, 4).."\n"..string.sub(text, 5, string.len(text)) 
outputChatBox(text) 
--[[ output : 1234 
              567890     --]] 
  

[.:HyPeX:.]

i had a post about something similar before, it might help you in the future, the code was in the end this:

  
local array = { 
    x = 1, 
    y = 2, 
    z = 3, 
    lx = 1, 
    ly = 2, 
    lz = 3 
} 
  
function splitArrayIntoLines( _array ) 
    if ( type( _array ) ~= "table" ) then return "" end 
    local splitted = "" 
    local formed = { } 
    
    for i,v in pairs( _array ) do 
        formed[ #formed + 1 ] = i .. ": " .. v 
    end 

[Tete omar]

  -ffs-AbodyRulez said:

Thank you Tete, i didn't understand your code actually, but i've tried something and it worked for me i guess.

  
text = 1234567890 
text = string.sub(text,1, 4).."\n"..string.sub(text, 5, string.len(text)) 
outputChatBox(text) 
--[[ output : 1234 
              567890     --]] 
  

No problem, this function will separate each 11 characters with a new line, this is all you need i guess?

[-ffs-AbodyRulez]

Thanks HyPeX

Tete, your code works fine, but how do i adjust it to make a new line when reaching a space after 11 character ? (So it won't divide a word in the 9th character for example)