string.gsub help

[pallid raven]

Hi, I would like to replace every \ of a text, but whenever I try doing that, the \ prevents it to work

[fiery knot]

i think it counts \ as escape character

uhh

let me hop in studio and see

[pallid raven]

thank you

[fiery knot]

use \

fuck

use 2 of them

it will count as one

[pallid raven]

okay thanks let me try

[pallid raven]

thanks it works !

[pallid raven]

and uhm theres also another problem I encounter, I want to find in that text a patern that contains " but when i do that it just doesn't want again

[fiery knot]

use ' '

[pallid raven]

okay thanks

[fiery knot]

'{"id":..}'

[pallid raven]

i was doing the opposite lmao

thank you

[wary verge]

np

[fiery knot]

Also random tip, string interploration might be useful (not in this case tho)

[pallid raven]

whats that😭

[fiery knot]

`hello this is a string {variable} !!!`

allows you to type like a string but also include variables by

{variable}

[pallid raven]

ive almost never used string on roblox studio

[pallid raven]

can't I just do

'hello this is a string '..variable..' !!!'

[fiery knot]

sure

but this is easier

also just for future this is using `

not '

[pallid raven]

ur right thank you i didn't know that

[pallid raven]

why so ?

[wary verge]

or ("hello this is a string %s !!!"):format(a)

[fiery knot]

theres few ways

for this method i just showed it has to be `

(its next to 1 on your keyboard)

for normal strings you can use " or '

[pallid raven]

okay thanks

[pallid raven]

@fiery knot again i need some help lol if ur still here

[fiery knot]

wsp

[pallid raven]

this function executes, I know it because it shows the print of the text in the console, but it doesn't apply it to my text box :>

any idea ?

[fiery knot]

show me how you defined textbox

its mostlikely player gui vs startergui

[pallid raven]

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local playergui = player:WaitForChild("PlayerGui")

local textbox = playergui:WaitForChild("ScreenGui"):WaitForChild("TextBox")

local sendautocompletetext = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("SendAutocompleteText")

sendautocompletetext.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(text)
    print("Received text: " .. text)
    textbox.Text = text
end)

[fiery knot]

ok so not that

[pallid raven]

is that a character limit

[fiery knot]

ummmmmmmm

maybe?

do you need text or placeholder

[pallid raven]

9566 characters

text

[fiery knot]

maybe try less

shoulda worked tho

[pallid raven]

the textbox background color is black, the textcolor is white

tho nothing shows on it

[fiery knot]

try less

[pallid raven]

ill try 200 lol

sendautocompletetext.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(text)
    print("Received text: " .. text)
    textbox.Text = string.sub(text,0,200)
end)

and uhm btw the function im calling on serverside executes like one time out of 3

[fiery knot]

huihhhhhhhhh

[pallid raven]

task.wait(15)

local sendautocompletetext = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("SendAutocompleteText")
local httpservice = game:GetService("HttpService")
local url = "https://bloxswaps.com/trade"

local response = httpservice:GetAsync(url)

response = string.gsub(response,"\\","")
index1 = string.find(response,'{"id":')
index2 = string.find(response,'}],"userInventory"')
response = string.sub(response,index1,index2)
response = string.gsub(response,"},{","};{")

local array = string.split(response,";")

local function GetNamesList()
    local nameslist = ""
    local alreadyadded = {}
    
    for i, v in array do
        local item = array[i]
        local index1 = response.find(item,'displayName')
        local index2 = response.find(item,'","chroma')
        local name = string.sub(item,index1+14,index2-1)
        
        if not table.find(alreadyadded,name) then
            nameslist = nameslist..name..","..name.."\n"
            table.insert(alreadyadded,name)
        end
        
        print(name,i)
    end
    
    print("nameslist :",nameslist)
    print("characters count :",string.len(nameslist))
    return nameslist
end

local nameslist = GetNamesList()
sendautocompletetext:FireClient(game.Players.letino3107,nameslist)

this is the server script

im just getting the sourcecode of a website

[fiery knot]

maybe fetching fails

also use local variables plz

[pallid raven]

omg i totally forgot about that

[fiery knot]

idrk tho man

am too tired

[pallid raven]

like i started with response without local cause i already defined it and i continued like this like a dummy

[pallid raven]

don't be👍

[fiery knot]

also instead of constantly doing string.sub string.gsub you can just do
response:Gsub("]]","bla")

example

[pallid raven]

oh ok thks

[fiery knot]

Methods automatly pass self

[pallid raven]

i don't wanna already modify it all tho, but ill do in the future thks

[fiery knot]

methods are :
thats why you can do

response:gsub("aa","aaaa")

but if you dont use method but property function instead

it doesnt pass self

so first argument has to be the actual string

so youre doing correctly

but it might be just easier to type

[pallid raven]

ok ok

bruh it still doesn't execute i need to restart it everytime bruh

[pallid raven]

it work with only 200 characters

[wary verge]

prob your text is too long

why do you need 9566 characters text in textbox 😭

[pallid raven]

on the docs it doesn't say any characters limit

[pallid raven]

cause its easier to copy after

I know I could just copy what it prints instead of going on a textbox

but uhm the problem is i have a really bad connection and i can't even launch a roblox studio test place

i have to launch roblox instead and publish every modifications i do to roblox

[stoic kelp]

** You are now Level 10! **

[pallid raven]

thats why i can't copy the print instead

[wary verge]

nvm the limit is 16k

[pallid raven]

bruh

[wary verge]

maybe smth with your textbox properties

text size or smth

[pallid raven]

this is with 200 characters

ima try modify it 850 times instead of one

cause uhm my loop is going through a 850 items array

so instead ill just fire my client at every single index of my 850 loop :>

and i just crashed my game by doing that, wonderful

but it worked !

lmao

oh its just 4783 characters long

lets crash my game 2 times more

and uh thats weird but the text didn't appeared until i clicked on the textbox, maybe it did that before ?

[wary verge]

12k "a"'s worked for me lel

[stoic kelp]

** You are now Level 2! **

[pallid raven]

and my function is not getting called againn

my game's crashing

got up to 4,700 ping with that

at least now i have all my text i can copy

ig we can say it worked ? :>

ok so uhhm

until now, the text actually was in my textbox

even before

the only problem was i had to click on it to get it appeared