So this is really more of a basic question than a wow ace question. I just feel more comfortable asking it here than the wow forums though, cause well... Not many people respond there that know LUA conventions :)
I'm trying to pull a single return value from strmatch, but just can't wrap my brain around how to do this.. Example
Any hints on how to return a specific index in this case?
if the match string is a variable/constant then either use select as already mentioned or use some random throwaway variable like the underscore for returns you dont care about;
_, _, z = strmatch("Something", "S(%a)m(%a)th(%a)ng")
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I'm trying to pull a single return value from strmatch, but just can't wrap my brain around how to do this.. Example
x,y,z = strmatch("Something", "S(%a)m(%a)th(%a)ng");this works great if I want to assign variables, but what If I want to keep my match string intact and only return the 3rd instance of my match?
I'd like to do something LIKE
/print strmatch("Something", "S(%a)m(%a)th(%a)ng")[3];and have it return 'i'
Any hints on how to return a specific index in this case?
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Curse Premium/print select(3,strmatch("Something", "S(%a)m(%a)th(%a)ng"))http://www.lua.org/pil/5.2.html
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Curse Premiumif the match string is a variable/constant then either use select as already mentioned or use some random throwaway variable like the underscore for returns you dont care about;
_, _, z = strmatch("Something", "S(%a)m(%a)th(%a)ng")