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stringluafindmatch

How to check if matching words is found in a string in Lua?

Using:

if string.find(message.content, "hi") then
  global:printError("[INFO] Someone sent you hi")
  
end

Works good, however I'd like to give it a word list to actually trigger the print message.

EG: hello,salut,bonjour,hi,hola, And my message.content = hi comment va tu ? I can say hello, speak spanish hola If any of the words is found in the string trigger the message.

How do I achieve this ?

Solution

  • Make a list of greetings and iterate over the list directly. For example:

    local greetings = { "hello", "salut", "bonjour", "hola", "hi" }

    for _,v in pairs(greetings) do
if v == message.content then
-- do something
 break
 end
end