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AStopher
AStopher

Reputation: 4520

String to number conversion

I am trying to make several chatcommands in my new server modification for Crysis Wars that requires numbers and strings. To get the player input, I do this:

local name, time, reason = string.match(chatMsg, "^!punish (.*) (%d+) (.*)");

For some reason, it's not working properly (gets the number value as a string). The number value is the second variable in the string.match. Am I doing something wrong here? I've also tried to find a solution to this, but have not found any. Perhaps I should be using a different method to get the number?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2265

Answers (1)

dualed
dualed

Reputation: 10502

It's actually quite simple, just add the following line after the line you posted in your question.

time = tonumber(time);

As mentioned in the comments below, you can achieve the same with

time = time + 0

Upvotes: 7

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