Inserting characters into a string.

Solar2D Lua Language
#1

Hi all.

I am trying to do the following, and failing. 

I have a string for example:

local animal = “sheep”

And I want to change this to 

local animal = " ‘sheep’ "

Is there anyway I can do this with Lua? I was thinking with GSUB but cannot get my head around it. 

If you can’t see the different, the 2nd line has an extra ’ on either side of sheep. 

#2

Fixed it in a hacky way - Any other suggestions?

local animal1 = “’”

local animal2 = “sheep”

local animal3 = animal1…animal2…animal1

#3

Try the following:

local animal = "sheep" local new\_animal = "'"..animal.."'"

Or did I get you wrong and you want something different?

#4

Cheers, that’s what I ended up doing. I was over-complicating it for myself I think. 

#5

Fixed it in a hacky way - Any other suggestions?

local animal1 = “’”

local animal2 = “sheep”

local animal3 = animal1…animal2…animal1

#6

Try the following:

local animal = "sheep" local new\_animal = "'"..animal.."'"

Or did I get you wrong and you want something different?

#7

Cheers, that’s what I ended up doing. I was over-complicating it for myself I think.