Array Copying Problems

[Inverness]

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Ok, heres a little script thats part of the new mud system I'm working on.

PHP Code:

public function loadObject() {
  temp.file = 0;
  temp.vars = 0;
  temp.i = 0;
  temp.e = 0;
  temp.s = 0;
  
  file = new TStaticVar();
  file.loadvars(format("%s/%s/%s.txt", MudControl.mudpath, this.mudtype, this.mudid));
  MudControl.loadRefs(file);
  echo("1:" @ file.muditems[0].mudid);
  echo("2:" @ file.muditems[1].mudid);
  vars = file.getVarNames();
  vars.remove("mudid");
  vars.remove("mudtype");
  
  for (i = 0; i < vars.size(); i ++) {
    //if (file.(@ vars[i]).type() != 3) {
      this.(@ vars[i]) = file.(@ vars[i]);
    //}
    //else {
    //  s = file.(@ vars[i]).size();
    //  this.(@ vars[i]) = new [s];
    //  for (e = 0; e < s; e ++) {
    //    this.(@ vars[i])[e] = file.(@ vars[i])[e];
    //  }
    //}
  }
  echo("3: " @ this.muditems[0].mudid);
  echo("4: " @ this.muditems[1].mudid);
  file.destroy();
  triggerAll("onLoadedObject", null);
} 


Now heres my problem, when an object is loaded it contains reference strings like ref:item:20010 and ref:item:20011 which were the two objects I was using for this test. Now the MudControl parses all these strings and returns the correct MudObject# for them.

This works all find and dandy because in echos 1 and 2 it correctly displays the MudID under all conditions, meaning the reference parser is fine. Now my problem was that echos 3 and 4 were blank even though I was simply copying an already existing reference array.

Now previously in the object is another variable, the reference to the archetype which is just a single reference and not an array, this was copied to the current object just fine in all cases. Now when I tried to copy the array of the two items as a whole, it didn't work for some reason and echos 3 and 4 were blank as I said. Now then, what I did was add in the lines that you see commented out and the script worked fine after that.

Is this a bug or something?