Laugh from :D

[Artisz]

Hi!

 

How can I do it that if I have a sentence with a smile(:D) in the middle of it, then don't write the smile, but another word(*laugh).

[koragg]

message:gsub( ":D", "laugh")

[Artisz]

Thank you, but what if I have two tables, one with the emoticons, the other with their meanings. How can I do that if there is an emoticon in the text, what is in the table to, then change it to the meaning?

emoticons = {
    ":D",
	":("
}

meanings = {
	"laugh",
    "sad"
}

 

Edited July 5, 2017 by Artisz

[Lpsd]

emoticons = {
    {":D", "laugh"},
	{":(", "sad"}
}

function checkMessage(message)
  for i=1,#emoticons do
    if string.find(message, emoticons[i][1]) then
      message:gsub(emoticons[i][1], emoticons[i][2])
    end
  end
end
  
checkMessage("Testing message :D")

something like this?

Edited July 5, 2017 by LopSided_

[Artisz]

OK, now it's working. Thank you!

Edited July 5, 2017 by Artisz