Lua function string.find() not working

[Jaramal]

Hello,

First of all thanks for this amazing tool, spared us a lot of time and energy !
I'm facing a curious problem when trying to call the lua function : string.find() as a node condition.
For exemple :

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string.find("dog", "dog")

Seems to return false. When I call it in script :

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Lua.Run("string.find(\"dog\", \"dog\")");

=> HasReturnValue is always false. What is the correct synthax for the equivalent of c# method "string.contains" in Lua ?
(What I am trying to do is check if a Lua variable contains a specified string.)

[Tony Li]

Hi,

Lua's string.find() returns nil if it doesn't find a match, or a list of two numbers if it does find a match. The first number is the starting index of the match, and the second number is the ending index (starting from index 1). For example:

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return string.find("Yo dog", "dog")

returns the list { 4, 6 }. But this:

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return string.find("Yo dog", "cat")

returns nil.

You can check it in a node condition like this:

• Dialogue Text: "Meow."
• Conditions:

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  string.find("Yo dog", "cat") == nil

[Jaramal]

Thanks a lot ! That did the trick.