A Gearswap Academia - Class 3
A Gearswap Academia - Class 3
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In this lesson, the :match() construction is an example of some Lua syntactic sugar (special shortcut syntax) referring to the standard Lua string.match function.
Let's look at this example:
This is a shortcut for calling string.match() with two parameters: spell.name, which is indeed a string, and a second string pattern, 'Cure'.
Written out in full Lua syntax, it would look something like this:
You'll see this type of shortcut used all over the place in various Windower Lua things, so it is probably helpful to understand exactly what's happening.
Let's look at this example:
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if spell.name:match('Cure') thenThis is a shortcut for calling string.match() with two parameters: spell.name, which is indeed a string, and a second string pattern, 'Cure'.
Written out in full Lua syntax, it would look something like this:
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if string.match(spell.name, 'Cure') then
You'll see this type of shortcut used all over the place in various Windower Lua things, so it is probably helpful to understand exactly what's happening.
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