How to delete all text before certain symbol?

Question

Hello i need to delete text before certain symbol Something like this:

Something:somethingtoo --> somethingtoo Something2:somethingtoo2 --> somethingtoo2

There are about 100 somethings and i need to delete everything before : so i don't know how

Others used replace() but i am too lazy to write all 100 examples so can you help me if there is a way? //this is the code others used Something = "Something:somethingtoo" SomethingNew = replace(Something, "Something", "" print(SomethingNew)

user_18348863 · Answer

You can use string.gsub to replace something.

Here's the example

-- To call the function, you can do `string.gsub` or `(''):gsub ( stringVar:gsub )`

local myString = "Something:other"
local otherString = string.gsub(myString,"^Something","")

print(otherString)

Here's some references about String library and String patterns:

How to delete all text before certain symbol?

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