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I have a string, which has the word "amogus" in it. I use gsub, to replace amogus with

"<font color="..red..">".."amogus".."</font>"

But everytime I refresh to check for anything else I need to gsub, it thinks that the replaced text needs to be replaced, since it also contains amogus. How can I fix this? Thanks -creepersaur

Egor Skriptunoff
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You may solve it with %f pattern:

local s = "  amo  <>amo<>  "
s = s:gsub("%f[%w>]amo", "<>amo<>")
print(s)  -->   <>amo<>  <>amo<>
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