Authors CurseForge

Allright, i've been trying for about 3 hours before asking here, and http://lua-users.org/wiki/StringLibraryTutorial didn't help me much so

I'm using gsub like this to reformat my chat gsub('%[Guild%]', '(g)') and it works just fine, but there's one thing i really can't manage to do.

In my chat, every names are formatted like this [Name], i'm trying to remove the [] no matter what chat they're tying in

for example, someone typing in raid looks like (rl) [misterx]: test, and i want to have it like this (rl) misterx: test. Same goes for whispers, guild etc etc, anyone good with this ?

s = s:gsub("%[([^]]*)%]", "%1")

Thanks ! omg finally, had almost no hair left to pull :)

Or hmm actually what you suggest remove everything between any [] even if i type [test] in chat it won't appear. Any way to only remove the [] from players name ?

adding a limit will probably fix your issue.

s = s:gsub("%[([^]]*)%]", "%1", 1)

Yes ! apparently it did :)

s = s:gsub("|Hplayer:(.-)|h%[(.-)%]|h", "|Hplayer:%1|h%2|h")

Quote from Arrowmaster

s = s:gsub("|Hplayer:(.-)|h%[(.-)%]|h", "|Hplayer:%1|h%2|h")

That one doesn't work Arrow :|

Quote from jerry

adding a limit will probably fix your issue.

s = s:gsub("%[([^]]*)%]", "%1", 1)

Just noticed an issue, when someone link at least 2 items in the same line, his name is correctly formatted, but the first item gets formatted aswell, the [] are removed from the first item, the second items is fine, with []

You can save many gsub if you simply change the strings Blizzard use to format chat messages. For example, try to execute this line in game, then chat with your guildmates:

/run CHAT_GUILD_GET = "(g) %s: "

Other pre-formatted string variables to toy with:

CHAT_SAY_GET
CHAT_YELL_GET
CHAT_WHISPER_GET
CHAT_WHISPER_INFORM_GET
CHAT_GUILD_GET
CHAT_OFFICER_GET
CHAT_PARTY_GET
CHAT_RAID_GET
CHAT_RAID_LEADER_GET
CHAT_RAID_WARNING_GET
CHAT_BATTLEGROUND_GET
CHAT_BATTLEGROUND_LEADER_GET