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Word number to actual number

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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,133 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #15 on Mon 06 Nov 2017 06:47 AM (UTC)
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It looks like Lua changed its behaviour between version 5.1 (which MUSHclient uses) and 5.2.

In 5.1 only strings and numbers can be implicitly used as strings. In 5.2 a value with a "__tostring" metatable entry could be used to convert it to a string (like a "big number" value).

Thus, since ColourNote does not call "tostring" implicitly, you need to explicitly call it in the example you have provided.

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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,133 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #16 on Mon 06 Nov 2017 07:04 AM (UTC)
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Rene said:

Sorry, was a typo I meant like that.
I realised my issue what with using ColourNote, (i.e. ColourNote("white", "", convert_words_to_numbers(amount) ) for some reason that gave an error ...


It is always helpful to post the error message, rather than vaguely saying that it "gave an error".

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