Concatenation of strings spaces in Lua

[ChristianSogaard 61]

I'm trying to prettify a list output.

 

i run through the list of rooms and find the longest room name= maxStrLength

sending "longest room name" and room name to the function

 

My way of adding spaces to the variable, don't work - i tried all possible combinations, besides the right one ?

can't i have a string ending with multible spaces or what goes wrong here?

It works with other characters like underscore

 

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another thing, but related to above example

The LUA # function like #strVar above - is doubling danish characters like æøå when counting.

The length of strings in Lua is the number of bytes in it, not the number of chars - so how do i do this smart ?

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Edited September 17, 2022 by ChristianSogaard
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[ChristianSogaard 61]

5 hours ago, ChristianSogaard said:

I'm trying to prettify a list output.

 

i run through the list of rooms and find the longest room name= maxStrLength

sending "longest room name" and room name to the function

 

My way of adding spaces to the variable, don't work - i tried all possible combinations, besides the right one ?

can't i have a string ending with multible spaces or what goes wrong here?

It works with other characters like underscore

 

Please login or register to see this code.

 

 

 

another thing, but related to above example

The LUA # function like #strVar above - is doubling danish characters like æøå when counting.

The length of strings in Lua is the number of bytes in it, not the number of chars - so how do i do this smart ?

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I solved the last part with 

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