Searching a string for a word?

Is it possible to search a string for a word? I'm thinking of creating a complex AI, and i want to easily be able to add different skills to the AI. So for example, if i want him to be able to see in the dark, i would simply open his "atributes" string and write "NightVision". Then the code applies certain events for every enemy with nightvision! I could use a bunch of private values, and have for example the value "NightVision" set to 1 if it should apply to that enemy, but it would require more repetition, and be harder to organize. Searching for a word could be used in other ways too, so if it's not allready in construct i suggest you ad it to the to-do list!

This should be possible to do in Python.

Something like this maybe

if my_attribs.find("NightVision"):
        # Yay, I'm a cat!
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You can do this with the Compare Values condition and the Find() expression:

Find("Source string, with different words", "different")

different to

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would mean the word "different" existed in the source string.

Perfect. Thank you guys!

I'm bumping this thread now... so what? i don't care!

eeh.. Is it possible to search for many words at the same time? Something like

Find("Source string, with different words", "hello", "dude!")

different to

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Exactly what i wrote seems to do something, but i can't figure out what it does.

Surely you could make that another condition in the event? Provided you wanted it to only run the event if BOTH words could be found.

The third parameter to Find is the index at which to start searching, but the expression validator accepts a string (eg. "55") but "dude!" will be converted to 0 so it doesn't do what you think... a bit dubious design on my part perhaps. Use a function or condition alias to search for several words at once, maybe.

Nice! I'll use the function now that you've told me how it worked. I used multiple conditions before, but one event was bigger then the screen, so it got kind of annoying. the function take up less space.