How to dissect and parse a string in lua?

Question

I am trying to make command arguments in Roblox. For example, /kill playername. The problem is I don\'t know how to parse the playername from the string /kill

Answer 1

I suggest splitting the string with the string.split method to get the segments, then check if the first value is what you want.

game:GetService("Players").PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
    Player.Chatted:Connect(function(Message)
        local segments = Message:split(" ")
        if((#segments >= 1) and (segments[1] == "/kill")) then
            -- The rest of the arguments can be accessed like this:
            local args = {unpack(segments, 2)} -- Gets every argument after the first value,
            -- which is the command.
        end
    end)
end)