Convert string to array (call compile?)

[DZR_Mikhail 15]

Hi. All AAR development now stopped because I couldn't make an array out of string. Please help! :butbut:

So I read a string from external source (a named pipe) and it looks like this:

[9.386,q_11,[4224.73,3247.1,0.00175858],313.83,'0']

I read it to _ddata variable. So in theory in arma it could look like this:

_ddata = "[9.386,q_11,[4224.73,3247.1,0.00175858],313.83,'0']";

and we need to make it an array, actually I need it to be the same but without the string quotes:

_ddata = [9.386,q_11,[4224.73,3247.1,0.00175858],313.83,'0'];

I try to do this using call compile, but I never used this command and I think I make mistakes in the syntax.

call compile "_ddata_array = _ddata;";

That last piece of script is the point I fail with. Without the conversion the AAR won't be able to playback. HALP! :butbut:

[blakeace 11]

You could try using toarray and tostring. There is parseNumber as well.

I was only using them to change strings around, but it would allow you to search through the string and pull out each element. You could then do a check with the unicode values to see if they are numeral types plus decimal point and minus sign to then convert into a number with parseNumber.

Not tried it to this depth, but could be a solution for you. Or a start maybe.

Hope it helps.

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/toArray

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/toString

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/parseNumber

Edited August 12, 2010 by blakeace

[DZR_Mikhail 15]

Thanks, I hope there will be a more subtle solution. All those UNocode conversions will make it very difficult... There will be like 20 arrays every 0.01 second and reparsing them I think will impact performance very much.. .I hope for call compile method (((

[DZR_Mikhail 15]

Oktane says that will do the trick

call compile format["_ddata_array = %1", _ddata]; 

[Big Dawg KS 6]

_ddata_array = call compile _ddata;

Otherwise you might have scope issues with _ddata_array.