local w = "W"
local h = "H"
local a = "A"
local t = "T"
local foo
foo = w .. h .. a .. t
print(foo)
I get "WHAT," but my issue is with order. What if I press a button called "t" and I want "t" to appear first?
"TWHA"
or other buttons
"TAHW"
Basically, how to have strings order appear by what button is pressed and have them equal the "foo" variable?
Again, you probably want to use a menu for this task, but without knowing more about what you are trying to do, it is hard to say.
Assuming "WHAT" is a sequence of characters entered by the player, you'd want to use the menu:on_character_pressed(character) function. It could look something like this:
local chars_pressed = {}
function my_menu:on_character_pressed(character)
table.insert(chars_pressed, character)
end
function my_menu:print()
local str = table.concat(chars_pressed)
print(str)
chars_pressed = {} --clear table
end
Note that this is compatible with utf-8 (international) characters, but be warned that str:len() will return the number of bytes in the string, not necessarily the number of characters. i.e. if the player enters 4 characters that are each multi-byte characters of 2 bytes, then str:len() would return 8 even though there are only 4 characters. Instead, #chars_pressed can be used to get the number of characters entered.
Not exactly what I wanted, but your answer gives me two solutions. Thanks again llamazing! :D