Lua String replace

Question

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)

Because ^ is a special character, you need use % to escape it in Lua. — Huang F. Lei

Kknd Kknd · Accepted Answer · 2010-11-28T16:33:46

Try:

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