How do you pull from an ini using a list?

[aylictal]

Hello guys. I don't post here but usually just roam about from time to time for help tips, and for the majority of my first game creation experience, it's been a swell one.

I'm running into an issue with my current design implementation for my game.

To make a long story short, I've created a list based off an ini file, and have the contents of which highlightable by the up and down arrow keys.

Is there any way when the user has one of the elements highlighted and hits a key to use that specific item, for me to set the current item of the ini equal to the current selection of the list?

Currently when I try, my list is populated with items as follows:

ItemA=5
ItemB=3
ItemC=11

etc...

But when the user, in this example, highlights selection ItemC=11 and hits the use key, it is setting the current item to "ItemC=11" which ... is not what is wanted. What is wanted, is to set the current item to "ItemC". Is there a way to do this? without the =11 part attached?

[Konidias]

You can use string parser or tokenizer extensions to break up the strings by using "=" as the delimiter... which means "ItemC=11" would return:

ItemC
11

As two different tokens.

[aylictal]

Thanks for the quick reply.

Is there another way around this without extensions?

[aylictal]

Since I first wrote this, I tried to write the string into an array value at its first position. I then tried to make an equivalency test of:

Condition: Array position 1's string value == Current list selections string value
--Do this---

But it doesn't seem to be working

[lh37]

If you absolutely don't want to use extensions, you could use the Left$ command in your expression to pull the first 5 characters from the "left" part of the string:

For example:
If you had "ItemA=5" as the currently selected line.
Left$( List Select$( "List" ), 5 )
Would retrieve the first 5 characters of the string "ItemA"

Edit: I had to edit this a few times, I completely misread the question at first

[aylictal]

no worries. i wanted to respond with a thank you to konidas. i now have item management set up upon using an item out of a list with only 2 conditional statements:

one being the "upon pressing a key"
and the other being Element$("tokenizer", 0) = "Fish"

cheers and thank you