Some LUA help needed: Batch-create abilities

[Zwiebelchen]

I've never worked with LUA before except for very simple one-liner creation of abilities through object merger.

But now I have a rather complicated task that I don't know how to code in LUA:

I have 30 hero abilities with 5 levels each. I want to split the individual levels up into seperate 1 level abilities. Since that equals a total of 150 abilities, I'm looking for a LUA script that does that automaticly.

Now, why not just create a simple LUA loop to spamcreate the 150 abilities? The problem is:
1) I need to copy the description data from the old abilities
2) I need to extract substrings from said description data to get what the individual levels do

So, for example, the description looks like this:
"Level1: TEXT1|nLevel2: TEXT2|nLevel3: TEXT3"

I need to extract only TEXT1 for ability number 1, only TEXT2 for ability number 2, etc.


Can someone help me please on doing this? I know how string concatenation works in LUA, but I don't know how to get a substring from a data field.

 

[PurgeandFire]

You can't read data fields in lua. You can make copies of abilities to serve as a base, but that won't be of much use here.

The other options are GMSI and Wurst's compiletime functions. I'm not experienced enough in either to know whether they will handle reading from an object, though.

 

[Zwiebelchen]

So I need to do this manually? :/