Does any one know how to insert numbers in to a string or text? Here’s an example of what I was trying to do:
local correct = 59
local total = 300
local showResults = display.newText( "You got " + correct + " correct out of " + total, 0, 0, native.systemFont, 20) Apparently Lua doesn’t like to add strings to numbers, and it doesn’t seem to want to add strings to strings either. I also tried this:
local correct = 59
local total = 300
--convert to string values
local correctString = string.format( correct )
local totalString = string.format( total )
local showResults = display.newText( "You got " + correctString + " correct out of " + totalString, 0, 0, native.systemFont, 20) That mucks up everything, the program won’t even run when I try it. I’m sure this is one of those simple things that I’m just missing. I really don’t want to use four different variables to display this correctly. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! [import]uid: 155792 topic_id: 27672 reply_id: 327672[/import]