I'm writing a script in Lua.
I would need to get a string and get all the words are beginning with $ (they are wildcards), sending them to a function that will decode them, end rebuild the string with the values of each wildcard do not knowing upfront which wildcard the string has in it.
Example: please suppose the following wildcards having their values:
$title = Test Song
$author = Tormy
$date = 2022-10-15
$project = Test Project
and a string so built but, as I sadi, I cannot know upfront the kind of contained wildcards. i only now, they are starting with "$":
"The title of this song is $title. $title was composed by $author in $date, when he have created the $project"
I know how to make a string substitution (and I know how to do it). What I'm not able to do is to get all the words starting with "$"
I was able to get the just the "$" out of the sentence (so I could count it and know how many wildcards the string has)
I could get all what there is before the character "$" and/or after it.
But not just the wildcard itself.
NOTE: the .gsub suggested in the comments is not the solution I'm asking. The issue is: to detect one by one, and to send them to an API (which is a function ..let's call it API() just to be comfortable in the understanding) that returns the value. This is the problem I can't figure out how to solve it.
Only when I have one-by-one I can collect them into an array (table, in Lua) and apply the .gsub
I found the way, based also on the suggestion I got, but this is what I need:
local template = "The title of this song is $title. $title was composed by $author in $date, when he have created the $project"
for wildcard in string.gmatch(template,"%$(%w+)") do
wildcard_ = '$'..wildcard
val = API(wildcard_) -- or also API('$'..wildcard_)
...
...
...
end