string.find · nanos world API Reference

Syntax

Lua

string.find(haystack, needle, startPos, noPatterns)

Parameters

Name	Type	Default	Description
`haystack`	string	—	The string to search in.
`needle`	string	—	The string to find, can contain patterns if enabled.
`startPos`	number	—	The position to start the search from, can be negative start position will be relative to the end position.
`noPatterns`	boolean	—	Disable patterns.

Returns

number
number
string

string

This library provides generic functions for string manipulation, such as finding and extracting substrings, and pattern matching. When indexing a string in Lua, the first character is at position 1 (not at 0, as in C). Indices are allowed to be negative and are interpreted as indexing backwards, from the end of the string. Thus, the last character is at position -1, and so on.

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