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string.PatternSafe#511968
<function name="PatternSafe" parent="string" type="libraryfunc">⤶
<description>Escapes all special characters within a string, making the string safe for inclusion in a Lua pattern.</description>⤶
<realm>Shared and Menu</realm>⤶
<file line="66">lua/includes/extensions/string.lua</file>⤶
<args>⤶
<arg name="str" type="string">The string to be sanitized</arg>⤶
</args>⤶
<rets>⤶
<ret name="" type="string">The string that has been sanitized for inclusion in Lua patterns</ret>⤶
</rets>⤶
</function>⤶
⤶
<example>⤶
<description>⤶
Replaces all occurrences of "100%" in a string with "0%" and prints it.⤶
⤶
We call <page>string.PatternSafe</page> here as '%' is a special character when used in Lua patterns.⤶
</description>⤶
<code>⤶
local result = string.gsub( "You scored 100%!", ⤶
string.PatternSafe( "100%" ), ⤶
string.PatternSafe( "0%" ) )⤶
⤶
print( result )⤶
</code>⤶
<output>You scored 0%!</output>⤶
⤶
</example>
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