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Typewriter effect in Lua (unix)
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typewriter.lua
function type_out(str)
for char in string.gmatch(str, '.') do
os.execute("sleep " .. tonumber(0.1))
io.write(char)
io.flush()
end
end
-- You can now use `type_out("your string here")!`
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aquaslvt commented Mar 5, 2023

If you want this to run on Windows, just replace line 3 with:

if n > 0 then os.execute("ping -n " .. tonumber(0.1+1) .. " localhost > NUL") end

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