How to cut out the text?

[GioQveladze]

Hello All
Prompt please as to me from the text to cut out a certain part of the text on an example: "Hello All how are you doing?" I want to cut out "how are you" as to me of it to make?
And how to learn a text position by an example "how are you" from "Hello All how are you doing?" = 10
In advance thanks

[MustHave]

Sorry can't follow you.
Maybe you could explain your goals?
What are you trying to do, monitoring for a special text?

[lisa]

have a read of the lua manual

http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.4

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text = "Hello how are you??"
if string.find(text,"how are you") then print("yay text is found") end