Arcade style score function

[sheepmanbuddy]

Hello! I have here a function that formats scores from this:
3459
to this:
0003459



To use just add this code:
whateveriwanttocallthefunction = require("score")

The function has 2 parameters the total score and how many digits are in the final string.

EXAMPLE:
score(1456,6) would return the string "001456"

Edit:
I modified this so that it uses string.format. 3 params now! The first 2 are the same as before, the last one is optional and is maxscore.
2 return values the string of score, and the score itself.

Happy coding
-Sheepman

[DaedalusYoung]

You can do this with string.sub("00000" .. score, -6), although of course you do need to keep score under maxscore.

[bartbes]

How about string.format("%07d", 1456.6)?

[sheepmanbuddy]

I didn't know you could do that with string.format! I feel stupid...

Edit: Next time I need to do something similar to this, I will just play around with string.format.

[Jeeper]

I didn't know you could do that with string.format! I feel stupid...

Don't feel stupid, you can do things in many ways and you might be able to use this method for something else .

[Jasoco]

How about if you want to put commas in?

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function formatNumber(number)
	return (string.format("%d", number):reverse():gsub( "(%d%d%d)" , "%1," ):reverse():gsub("^(-?),","%1"))
end

Returns a number formatted like 1,000,000.

I made one that formats a number to hh:mm:ss but I'm not sure if it's optimal enough:

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function formatTime(t, m)
	local r = math.floor(math.mod(t/60/60,60)) .. ":" .. string.sub("0" .. math.floor(math.mod(t/60,60)),-2) .. ":" .. string.sub("0" .. math.floor(math.mod(t,60)),-2)
	if m then r = r .. (t - math.floor(t)) end
	return r
end

[DaedalusYoung]

I'm sure you can do that with os.date or os.time too

[katekerillf]

Looks like a good find. I will download this to try.