Unexpected behaviour when time is >= 10

[1u4]

My code works fine, until the number in [start <number>] (in text = ) is 10 or more. In the example below, it displays the first string, "string 1", then at 5 seconds displays the string, "string 3" instead of "string 2". If you change the last start number in "text =" to less than 10, the code works as expected.

I have no idea why this is. Anyone?

Oh, and please feel free to criticize the way I've gone about coding this. I'm as equally new to lua as I am löve and am generally a rubbish programmer

Thanks

(Change [start 10.0] to a lower number to see it working correctly).

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function love.load()
    -- some text to try...
    text = "Sample text [start 2.0]string 1[end 4.5] this should not be visible [start 5.0]string 2 [end 7.0]more ignored text [start 10.0]string 3.[end 12.5]"
    audioSource = love.audio.newSource("audioFile.mp3")
    love.audio.play(audioSource) 
    playing = true

    --break up the text in the file and inset into categorised table arrays.
    startsArray = {}
    endsArray = {}
    wordsArray = {}
    for starts, words, ends in text:gmatch("%[start%s([%d%.]+)%](.-)%[end%s([%d%.]+)%]") do
        table.insert(startsArray, starts)
        table.insert(endsArray, ends)
        table.insert(wordsArray, words)
    end
    
    index = 1 -- this is the start of the table array and a base for incrementation.
    textCall = "Easy Video Language"
    font = love.graphics.newFont(75)
    love.graphics.setFont(font)
end

--

function love.keypressed(key)    
    if key == "escape" then 
        love.event.push("quit") 
    end
end

--

function love.update(dt)
    position = audioSource:tell( "seconds" )

    if index < 4 then
            if string.format("%f", position) > startsArray[index] then
            textCall = tostring(wordsArray[index])
            print(startsArray[index] .. " | " .. wordsArray[index] .. " | " .. string.format("%f", position) )
            index = index + 1
        end
    end
end

--

function love.draw()
    love.graphics.printf(textCall, 10, 75, 800, 'center') -- Default title -- set in love.load()
    love.graphics.printf(position, 10, 0, 800, 'center') -- check text is arriving on time.
end

[Boolsheet]

You compare strings where you want to compare numbers. "10.0" > "0.5" is false.
Use tonumber() to convert a string into a number.

[Kadoba]

Yeah when you compare strings then you are comparing their alphabetical order even if they display as a number ("10.0" > "0.5" is actually true since 1 comes after 0). You can use strings as numbers in expressions but even that isn't a good idea because it can cause some confusion.

[Boolsheet]

("10.0" > "0.5" is actually true since 1 comes after 0)

Oops. I'm using my Lua wrong.

[1u4]

Thank folks. I did that fix, made a few improvements and attached a copy with a working example -- if you are interested. It's still far from complete though.