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Inverness

08-10-2007 07:44 AM

Named Array Indexes

I'm sure most scripters should know of that array format used when saving object variables to array.
array = {"var1=value1", "var2=value2", "var3=value3", "var4=value4"};

Was wondering if a little feature could be added where if you did:
array["var2"] = "newvalue";
It would correctly replace the proper index with the new value after the equal sign. They would also be read in the same manner.

Skyld

08-10-2007 01:37 PM

Associative arrays?

In reality it would be just as easy to use a TStaticVar or something.

zokemon

08-10-2007 02:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Skyld (Post 1338722)

Associative arrays?

In reality it would be just as easy to use a TStaticVar or something.

Yes, but that wouldn't work if you were dealing with clientr and client variables. You would have to load the vars from the client/clientr array into another TStaticVar object which would take a slight bit more time/cpu/memory then doing what Inverness is suggesting. I still think this feature isn't that important though since it's really rare for a case like I am describing.

Inverness

08-11-2007 09:37 AM

Client vars are too limited by character to be doing things like that.

zokemon

08-11-2007 11:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Inverness (Post 1338986)

Client vars are too limited by character to be doing things like that.

Client vars are not limited to a character length!
It is only the act of doing /open and applying changes that your vars get trimmed. This has nothing to do with the fact that they are client vars but rather is because anything in the "flags" section of /open gets clipped like such.

If you just never use /open (such as scripting your own player editor) then you don't need to worry about such stupid misconceptions. I personally never ever have to use /open for anything what-so-ever.

xXziroXx

08-11-2007 01:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zokemon (Post 1338991)

I personally never ever have to use /open for anything what-so-ever.

Me either. I stopped doing that when I realized that /open cuts of client and clientr strings, and the serverflags window cuts of server and serverr flags.

High five! :fro:

Inverness

08-11-2007 07:21 PM

Valikorlia does not revolve around me, there are plenty of other staff who are going to have to use open at some time or another. And I'm not going to prevent them from doing it just because of my fancy scripting.

The character limit needs when using the /open command needs to be removed, period.

I'm not going to script my own player editor because you should not need to get on client to do that, that is what RC is for.

xXziroXx

08-11-2007 07:43 PM

*sigh* Here we go again..

Inverness

08-21-2007 09:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xXziroXx (Post 1339080)

*sigh* Here we go again..

If you don't want to hear what I have to say stop bringing it up, I'm not going to compromise by ignoring a perfectly good feature of the RC thats been in use for years.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Skyld

Associative arrays?

In reality it would be just as easy to use a TStaticVar or something.

You can't convert objects to strings in a simple way, arrays already are strings.

Inverness

10-28-2007 03:25 AM

*Bump*

I have renewed interest in this feature.

Novo	10-28-2007 03:59 AM

array = {{"key", "value"}, {"key", "value"}}

PHP Code:


		
			
function getIndexWithName( array, name )
{
  for ( temp.cell: array )
  {
    if ( temp.cell[0] == name )
      return temp.cell[1];
  }
  return null;
}

You can create your own functions of the sort...

PHP Code:


		
			
function indexOf( array, name )
{
  for ( i = 0; i < array.size(); i ++ )
    if ( array[i][0] == cellName )
      return i;
  return -1;
}

function setCellWithName( array, name, value )
{
  if ( indexOf( array, name ) != -1 )
    array[ indexOf( array, name ) ][1] = value;

  return array;
}

... etc, etc...

Inverness

10-28-2007 08:10 AM

Well duh.

And I prefer it would work like:

array = {"key=value", "key=value"};

Since that is how objects are saved to arrays and such, its more of a standard.

Doing array["key"] = value looks much nicer though and would be simple enough to implement. Python makes use of it well.

Novo	10-28-2007 09:17 AM

Yes. Sadly, this isn't Python or PHP or any other languages that make use of associative arrays. Taken into considering that we're talking about GScript... I would say that it isn't part of the language...

I provided you a way to do this... You can easily call functions, but right now, you just want it to LOOK pretty... Which isn't the purpose of programming language... It just converts it back to the very same thing.

And implementing that would mean you'd have to change the lexical of the language... And that's not pretty. There are ways that an associative array can be 'simulated'... So I don't see any more purpose to this than for aesthetic reasons. Stefan is busy enough fixing things that ARE useful. For instance, new features.

Inverness

10-28-2007 09:42 AM

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