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Extract substrings by matching patterns in the input string. This function can be used to extract specific information from a string.

Syntax

 utf8.match ( )

Code Examples

server

This example shows how to extract values from an input string by using a pattern to match the value parts.

local input = "Level: 5, Rank: General, 128.42 points"
local level, rank, points = utf8.match( input, "Level: (%d+), Rank: (.-), (%d+.?%d*) points" )
level, points = tonumber( level ), tonumber( points )

print( level, rank, points ) -- 5, General, 128.42

See Also

Reference

• Scripting Functions