How do I get items from an array?

Evening folks!

This might be the biggest newbie question ever, but how do I get an array to return a number on the same line as an item's name?

Lemme explain...

So I'm building a game about collecting different types of fish, and I figured the best way to start would be just to make sure I can get the core basics for the game first.

I get my "test" build done, just a button that tells me what fish I got, and some text that tracks how many I caught. Good! That's exactly what we're looking for, so why am I asking a question? Well...

This is horribly inefficient. If I wanted to add more fish to the list, It would just be repeating a ton of code just to track the fish, and while I'm not sure if it would, I feel like it might lag out the game a little to have this much repetition.

I tried to add an instance variable it would look for, or try to just use the text from the array itself to update a number, but it just wouldn't work because they're 0-based. Here's where I stopped before getting too upset over the lack of progress:

Is there any way I can make the array iterate based on the fish I caught, and then add a number to the (2,Y) segments? (1,Y) is where I'm storing fish ID numbers for now.

Evening folks!

This might be the biggest newbie question ever, but how do I get an array to return a number on the same line as an item's name?

Lemme explain...

So I'm building a game about collecting different types of fish, and I figured the best way to start would be just to make sure I can get the core basics for the game first.

I get my "test" build done, just a button that tells me what fish I got, and some text that tracks how many I caught. Good! That's exactly what we're looking for, so why am I asking a question? Well...

This is horribly inefficient. If I wanted to add more fish to the list, It would just be repeating a ton of code just to track the fish, and while I'm not sure if it would, I feel like it might lag out the game a little to have this much repetition.

I tried to add an instance variable it would look for, or try to just use the text from the array itself to update a number, but it just wouldn't work because they're 0-based. Here's where I stopped before getting too upset over the lack of progress:

Is there any way I can make the array iterate based on the fish I caught, and then add a number to the (2,Y) segments? (1,Y) is where I'm storing fish ID numbers for now.

Whoops! Forgot to add the little array I set up to make it easier to explain. Here it is:

If I'm understanding correctly you can use an array 'for loop' to run through X,Y where X=1 and Y = loopindex while you look for the fish name, if curY = "fish" then stop loop and add 1 to x=2,y=loopindex.

Note : I find it easier to do it where X row is the new fish and Y columns are the values, although it looks backwards in the array file I find it just makes more sense in events but that's up to you...

Thanks for the quick reply! I'll give this a try as soon as I can.