How do I parse a string?

Hey everyone,

not a coder, so I'm prolly abusing terminology again

I want to have a text var on an object that I can fill with level design data in the editor and iin runtime treat it according to its setup data.

e.g. have a variable 'spawnPhase' = "0,1,2" and during individual 'phases' of the map check if the object is currently meant to be spawned.

so how can i get an event to look for the occurence of a string within a string?

There are a number of expressions you can use:

to parse a string with a list of values separated by comma or some other symbol - use tokenat(), tokencount()

For example:

For "x"=0 to tokencount(text, ",")-1

...value = int(tokenat(text, loopindex, ","))

to search for a substring - find()

Other expressions:

left

right

mid

len

etc.

https://www.scirra.com/manual/126/system-expressions

dop2000 Cool, thanks!

I'm now struggling to cope with the variable types ...

I'd like to treat my substring as a number but look for it within a string. So like finding the number 1 inside the string "0,1,2".

Not sure about the syntax it requires.

Should find(Object.myStringOfNumbers,numberInQuestion) work?

facecrime

find(Object.myStringOfNumbers, "2")

If this returns a number >=0, this means that "2" is found.

But, if your string is long and contains numbers with multiple digits ("0,7,8,12,22,729") , if you need to find exact number 2, you should search for ",2," string.

With lists like this it's better to use tokenat/tokencount

dop2000

ah right, i will only have single digit numbers, so "2" or ",2," would both do.

my issue is probably that i want to pass in a variable instead of the actual value in quotes. but the variable type is number.

does it need converting then somehow or how do get it to interpret it as a text type ?

You can convert both ways:

Set number=int("2")

Set text=str(2)

Cheers dop2000 !