How to compare just one word out of line of a TextObject

Hello there

I would like to ask how I can compare just a part of a TextObject to use it in a condition of an event?

I know that it's easy to compare the full text string of a TextObject (with 'compare text - condition of Text Object) put I can not find a way to compare just one word (so I can Use it when different strings are containing the same word)

Thanks in advance

Lennert

Hi,

This will do.

Use system expression mid(Text,Index,Length) to get what you need.

where...

Text - text you want to be checked.

Index - where program should start from seeing the word. In our case we have to search for it with system expression find(Text,Find)

Length - we use expression len to calculate length of text you want to be found so only this word would be shown. So in case of "MultikillGladiator" we will get "kill" , not "killGladiator"

You can use it in actions too.

Thank you very much for your quick response and big help!!

Just what I needed!

I thought it was working, but I was wrong.

I've tested now in a simple event, but it doesn't work

Any idea where the problem should be?

Thanks anyway, I think you gave the right track, but maybe something is missing?

I think what you are looking for is the find() expression:

Set variable S to "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

System-> Compare two values -> find(S, "fox")>=0   
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find() expression returns position of the string ("fox") inside another string (S). 
It returns -1 if string was not found. So if the result >=0, this means that the string was found.

Hey Thank you very much for your response!

I don't that will be the way. (Cause the system condition 'compare 2 values' does'nt pick objects.

Let me explain the purpose more precisely:

I have for example 10 different textlines in a php.file.

One and the same text object is picking out 1 of those textlines randomly.

For example: in three textlines there is the word "Shooter" like in "You got a new highscore in Shooter"

Each time there is a textline with the word "Shooter" in, I would like to show a sprite next to the textobject.

I want to make a condition just for textobject instances with that word, and not comparing text for each of the 3 sentences.

Thanks for searching a solution with me!

Lennert

I think you can still use "find". And if you want to pick TextObject with your event, do this:

System -> Pick by comparison -> TextObject where find(TextObject.text, "Shooter")>=0

This will pick all TextObjects which contain this word.

haha, yes, now it works!!

finally, what a relief

A huge thank you for your time!

No problem, glad I was able to help!

And it didn't take any time at all