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[string] Lua String replace

How would i do this?

I got this:

name = "^aH^ai"
string.gsub(name, "^a", "")

which should return "Hi", but it grabs the caret character as a pattern character

What would be a work around for this? (must be done in gsub)

This question is related to string replace lua gsub lua-patterns

The answer is

Try:

name = "^aH^ai"
name = name:gsub("%^a", "")

See also: http://lua-users.org/wiki/StringLibraryTutorial

Source: Stackoverflow.com

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