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- Subject: Re: Accessing String contents
- From: Geoff Leyland <geoff_leyland@...>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:43:56 +1200
On 21/06/2012, at 3:36 PM, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> Hi,
>
> from a string in a table like this
>
> a={}
> a[1]="hello"
>
> I want to access/retrieve the n-th character.
>
> Somewhere I read about, that in lua everything is a table,
> therefore I thought that
>
> =a[1][1]
Lua 5.1.4 Copyright (C) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> a = { "hello"}
> =a[1]:sub(3,3)
l
See http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#pdf-string.sub
