help! how do strings work?

[Christina]

probably easy for most of you. Suppose I have an .ini with a line like

item1= 1 07 corrupt full helm

how do I tell MMF to read the numbers 1,07 seperately and the words "corrupt full helm" as a string ?

I know I could instead write
item1no= 1
item1dir= 07
item1name= corrupt full helm

but is there a way I can do it as one line?

thanks

[vortex2]

well "1 07 corrupt full helm" forms a string. I would use String Parser 2 and set " " as a delimiter. Then you can get the numbers as the first two elements, and the string as the other elements. Really it would be easier if you had some way to seperate the string from the numbers as the spaces in the word "corrupt full helm" make it so you can't just get that as one complete element (the string parser would break that up into three elements because it has two spaces).

Now if you had something like "1|07|corrupt full helm" and used "|" as a delimiter then you could get all of the elements fairly easily :P .

[Christina]

awesome! thanks!
so assuming I have something like 1*07*corrupt full helm , and I set my delimiter to "*" what would the code look like if I want to get
1.the value 1
2. the value 07 and
3. the string of text?

(I have no clue how the string parser2 object works)

thanks!!

[KetchupMaster]

*Start of Frame
-String Parser: Add Delimiter "*"

Use the set source string action to set the source string of the string parser to the 1*07*corrupt full helm

Then use listGetAt$( "String Parser", to get the values/text. Replace X with the section of the string you want. For example if you want to get 07 then replace X with 2.

[vortex2]

First of all you need to download it:String Parser 2

It comes with documentation that you can read to figure out how the object works .

[Christina]

thanks people, you're the best