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getting the last number, not a string
« on: 13 / March / 2022, 08:12:17 »
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was trying to pull the last digit from a number and tried with:
string.sub(time_in_seconds, i)

and while this works in extracting the last digit i cannot use it in a IF statement with a number since it is a string.

after looking over the documentation i could not find the proper code to do the same with a number or to change the string into a number.
do we have a solution for this in lua that i have overlooked?

i think i have :) let's try tonumber()
apparantly this was a rhetorical question.
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Re: getting the last number, not a string
« Reply #1 on: 13 / March / 2022, 12:13:04 »
You could try a bitwise operations like

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X=17
Y=bitand(X,1)
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Re: getting the last number, not a string
« Reply #2 on: 13 / March / 2022, 14:09:29 »
sweet, saves another 2 lines of code  :)
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Re: getting the last number, not a string
« Reply #3 on: 13 / March / 2022, 16:31:41 »
Quote from: Mlapse on 13 / March / 2022, 08:12:17
and while this works in extracting the last digit i cannot use it in a IF statement with a number since it is a string.
You can use tonumber() on the resulting string. You can use the modulo operator %. For example
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X%10
gives you the final decimal digit.

Quote from: c_joerg on 13 / March / 2022, 12:13:04
You could try a bitwise operations like

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X=17
Y=bitand(X,1)
This will give you the last bit, which is not the same as the last decimal digit.
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Re: getting the last number, not a string
« Reply #4 on: 13 / March / 2022, 17:08:46 »
Quote from: reyalp on 13 / March / 2022, 16:31:41
This will give you the last bit, which is not the same as the last decimal digit.
Yes, of course. 
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Re: getting the last number, not a string
« Reply #5 on: 13 / March / 2022, 18:21:25 »
thanks reyalp, much better :)
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Re: getting the last number, not a string
« Reply #6 on: 14 / March / 2022, 09:57:47 »
If only the first number is needed: :)
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function cap(x)
  while (math.abs(x)>9)  x = x/10 end
  return x
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