"match is unsupported" error message should be improved

[Zamiell]

The message should explicitly tell you to use string.match(foo, regex).

[Z3rio]

Could you please supply a sample ts snippet to show what the issue is a bit more specifically, thank you :)
(Or a link to the playground)

[Zamiell]

Sorry, I was not clear enough in the original post.

Consider the following code snippet, which is extremely common:

const string1 = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.";
const match = string1.match("brown (\w+) jumps");

The playground for this is here:
https://typescripttolua.github.io/play#code/MYewdgzgLgBNBOBLMBzAjDAvDARAFQAsBTGARwFdFgBrGAI3hAHcwYAzEADxgCtyBbAA4QYIAG5F4MKMRgAbAIYAvAJ4wAJiBQA6HAG4AUKEix+CqMAJY4UJKjTazFggAocDZqxcAdJgGoASl4BYRwAwyA

We can see that it throws the error:
"string.match is unsupported".

But this error message sucks and is misleading, because what it really means is that the String.match method is unsupported. The Lua string.match is absolutely supported.

What we really need to do here is to reconfigure the code to look like this:

const string1 = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.";
const match = string.match(string1, "brown (%w+) jumps");

So, in conclusion, I think the error message should say:

The String.match method is unsupported. Consider including the Lua types for your environment and then changing the code to string.match(foo, regex) instead. Note that the Lua match works differently than the JavaScript/TypeScript match, so for example you would have to change \w+ to %w+.