how to convert back groups or objects which where converted to a string

[cthulhu616 3]

hi

is there a way to convert groups or objects back to ther heritence data type or is this information lost after it was "stringed"?

grz ct

[kylania 568]

Can you give an example of what you're trying to do? I can't imagine what you mean by "stringed". :)

[Sealife 22]

maybe this helps

tostring

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

toarray

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

[riouken 15]

Like Kylania said can you give us an example of what your trying to do? I don't know why you would even need to do this.

If your refering to changing things to a string with this command: str

_myvar = player;

_mystring = str _myvar;

hint _mystring;

// you can still reference the object later
_myvar setDamage 1;

The variable does not go anywhere, when you pass it a variable that is referring to a group or an object it converts data into a string, in those cases the name of the group or the object. The variable or pointer that you passed this command is still there unless you destroy it:

_myvar = nil

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_(computer_science)

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Data_Types

Now if your talking about passing data through strings like over the network or to a persistent database take a look at the example mission in my sig.