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| Posted by
| AquaBrother
Brazil (19 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Mon 22 Nov 2010 05:05 PM (UTC) |
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| Hi, i'm trying to do something i should not, hehe, once i have not enough experience on doing it...
Well, i'm trying to make a search in an especific table but i cannot find the right command to use...
I have a table called {friends}
I use the table.insert to insert new friends name in that table, i've read about a few functions on the internet that would find that name but, what i really need is making it search all name that fits with a sentence, eg:
if i type for example:
friend mike
and lez imagine that i have two friends named mike and mikein, i'd like that search to inform me that there are two names within the setence i just type...
Is that possible?
big trouble huh? if you feel like too busy or like it's too much trouble for answering that, nevermind...
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| Posted by
| Fiendish
USA (2,547 posts) Bio
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| Reply #1 on Mon 22 Nov 2010 05:28 PM (UTC) |
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| I don't exactly understand. Is "friend mike" the sentence?
Can you give a better example of what you want to type and what you want to get as a result? |
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| Posted by
| AquaBrother
Brazil (19 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #2 on Mon 22 Nov 2010 05:42 PM (UTC) |
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| hehe, ok, i'll try to explain again...
I have the following table already made:
Mike
Mikein
Milan
Mordon
ETC...
I wanna type:
Friend mike
I wanna get as result:
There are two mike in your table:
Mike
Mikein
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| Posted by
| Fiendish
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| Reply #3 on Mon 22 Nov 2010 05:55 PM (UTC) Amended on Mon 22 Nov 2010 05:56 PM (UTC) by Fiendish
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| Message
| Off the top of my head, assuming you have along the lines of
friends = {"Mike", "Mikein", "Mikeout", "Wanda", "Jeff"}
I think you could make an alias with the pattern "friend *" that does the following:
local result = {}
local name = string.lower(%1)
for i,v in ipairs(friends) do
if string.find(string.lower(v),name) ~= nil then
table.insert(result,v)
end
end
print("There are "..#result.." "..%1.." in your table:")
for i,v in ipairs(result) do
print(v)
end
You may want to replace the print commands with something like Note or ColourNote. |
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| Posted by
| AquaBrother
Brazil (19 posts) Bio
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| Reply #4 on Mon 22 Nov 2010 06:17 PM (UTC) |
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| hehe, thx Fiendish i appreciate your help, i think that will work for now...
Thx for your time =)
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,165 posts) Bio
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| Reply #5 on Mon 22 Nov 2010 08:28 PM (UTC) |
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|
Fiendish said:
local result = {}
local name = string.lower(%1)
You need to quote the %1 there (and further down), otherwise it expands to:
local name = string.lower(Mike)
... which is referring to the non-existent variable Mike.
It should read:
local result = {}
local name = string.lower("%1")
Ditto for lower down where it displays the results.
print("There are " .. #result .." %1 in your table:")
It would also help to make a "plain" search in case you happened to search for (say) ^Mike, so it could read:
if string.find (v:lower (), name, 1, true) then
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- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Fiendish
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| Reply #6 on Mon 22 Nov 2010 08:34 PM (UTC) |
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| | Heh. I suppose I should have actually tried it out first. :) |
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