about gsub, gmatch

[Rouzbeh]

hi, i want a code to get replace characters between "[ ]" from playername

like: [clan]playername to playername

delete "[x]" from playername

[Addlibs]

function getPlayerNameWithoutTags(player) 
  local name = getPlayerName(player) 
  return string.gsub(name, "\[.*\]", "") 
end 

Edit: I failed with escaping. Sorry. The slashes (\) should be percent symbols (%).

Edited August 24, 2015 by Guest

[botder]

The pattern is wrong, here is the fix:

function getPlayerNameWithoutTags(player) 
    return getPlayerName(player):gsub("%[.*%]", "") 
end 
  

function getPlayerNameWithoutTags(player) 
  local name = getPlayerName(player) 
  return string.gsub(name, "\[.*\]", "") 
end 

[Rouzbeh]

thanks body