[SOLVED]More than One Word Input

[Grizzly Adam]

How do I make lua recognize that I am using two words here? It is just giving me the regular HELP command at this point, instead of the help for CLS.

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elseif exec_command == "help cls" then
	add_outline(data.outlines, ' CLS     Clears the screen.')

[Tmanyo]

You could do,

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elseif exec_command:match("^help cls$") then
        add_outline(data.outlines, ' CLS     Clears the screen.')

I don't know if that will make any difference or not, but you can try.

[Grizzly Adam]

Nope, same result. It just overlooks it.

Messing around with match, it works fine until the space.

[ExeterDad]

What about:

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elseif exec_command:match("^help%s*cls$") then
        add_outline(data.outlines, ' CLS     Clears the screen.')

[Grizzly Adam]

What about:

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elseif exec_command:match("^help%s*cls$") then
        add_outline(data.outlines, ' CLS     Clears the screen.')

Still the same thing :/ Once we get this working I will be definiately using match to tell me if its a help command, should simplify the code a bit.

[Grizzly Adam]

bell07 came up with this one. Works like a charm.

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elseif exec_command == "help" then
	local help_command = exec_all[2]
	if help_command == "cls" then
		add_outline(data.outlines, help_command.." - bla bla")

[bell07]

For reference, the "full" solution was

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local exec_all = data.inputfield:split(" ")
local exec_command = exec_all[1]
if exec_command == nil then --empty line
elseif exec_command == "help" then
   local help_command = exec_all[2]
   if help_command == "cls" then
      add_outline(data.outlines, help_command.." - bla bla")