Devide 2 words and get First letter of each word HELP

[telco]

Hello i having trouble with this small scripting ideas, i know this is so just noob for you but for me really need help.


I have 1 input user can type two or even three item on it..
example: Toyota Honda


then i have a button to separate those two words and get only the first letter so the output will be T H,
but in the case the user make a space before Toyota my output will get a space and H..

can anyone help me with this with a simple example? thanks

[colc]

Hi @telco,

but in the case the user make a space before Toyota my output will get a space

Try this

--Stop spaces in input box
--The number '32' equals the ASCII Decimal SPACE
if e_Key == 32 then
    strInput1 = Input.GetText("Input1")
        strInput1 = String.Replace(strInput1, " ", "", false)
            strInput1Length = String.Length(strInput1)
                Input.SetText("Input1", strInput1)
                    Input.SetSelection("Input1", strInput1Length+1, strInput1Length+1)
end

Cheers

[telco]

hello colc, actually i need the space, because if user enter two words it needs space.. my concern if the user enter space before the first word. then after that if the two words have no space before the first word i need to devide the words and get the first Character of each word.

[Imagine Programming]

function string:split(sep)
   local sep, fields = sep or ":", {};
   local pattern = string.format("([^%s]+)", sep);
   self:gsub(pattern, function(c) fields[#fields+1] = c; end);
   return fields;
end

function short(s)
    local entries = s:split(" ");

    for index, entry in pairs(entries) do
        entries[index] = entry:sub(1, 1);
    end

    return table.concat(entries, " ");
end

Dialog.Message("Toyota Honda Mazda", short("Toyota Honda Mazda"));

Something like that?

[telco]

Hello Imagine Programming i will check if this one will work... thanks

[Imagine Programming]

Here's another one, using a single function.

local assert, type, insert, concat = assert, type, table.insert, table.concat;

function short(s)
    assert(type(s) == "string", "argument #1 must be of type string");
    
    local result = {};
    for v in (" "..s):gmatch("%s([%w%W])") do
        insert(result, v);
    end
    return concat(result, " ");
end

[telco]

Hello IP here is the example i made that i want to achieve.. thank you

[Imagine Programming]

Hi Telco,

I'm currently not on a Windows machine and I don't feel like firing it up, can't you implement the function I shared? Place it in globals, call it with the user input and its result will be the format you were looking for - I believe.

[charliechaps]

hey @telco,
MAN you should really being trying this stuff instead of getting everyone to do your WORK, your example had NO code
It looks like you never tried IP's help

I have quickly put this together for you using the codes supplied from Imagine Programming and colc

telco_fixed.apz
PLEASE study and LEARN

[Imagine Programming]

+1 - thanks charliechaps

[herrin]

final reworked

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[telco]

Hello everyone.. sorry for the late response just got home for a vacation.. yeah i ddint try the IP share because i dont know where to put it..
charliechaps and herrin and Imagine Programming thank you for contributions.

[telco]

Hello i just tried it and it works for my needs.. thank you so much everyone even though i dont understand the code in global,.

telco

[Imagine Programming]

... yeah i ddint try the IP share because i dont know where to put it...

Trying is the most important part of software development, you could've put my first example pretty much anywhere.

[telco]

Imagine Programming thank you so much...