Conditional Triggering From Single File

[riseabovethestorm 10]

Okay, so this is something that I'm sure has been addressed in little bits and pieces but never as a whole.

I've recently got into creating missions and have been slowly learning the ins-and-outs of scripting, but with my lust for knowledge, I can't seem to find the answer fast enough (P.S., please don't tell me to "Use the Search Function," because I have, along with searching off-BIS sites through Google-Fu and still haven't been able to find the answers that I seek. If the answer as a whole is there to begin with, please feel free to link it.)

So an explanation of what I would like to do:

I have been making missions lately, and have been using triggers to fire off individual pieces of sideChat dialogue. This obviously makes for a very messy folder for the mission if there is a lot of dialogue, so I have been looking to consolidate the different dialogues down into a single file (if such a thing is even possible,) and fire them off conditionally. I'm very familiar with PHP (which uses a fairly similar syntax,) so I will attempt to illustrate what I want to do:

if($condition1 == true) {
echo "message 1";
}
elseif($condition2 == true) {
echo "message 2";
} else {
null;
}

Now as I read it, the conditional calls for ArmA 2 are (or people seem to think they are,) pretty clearly defined.

My follow-up is where do I declare the variables to fire off the different messages based off of conditions?

I ask all of this as if I am sure that it's possible, although with the power of the scripting engine I don't see why it wouldn't.

---------- Post added at 02:08 ---------- Previous post was at 01:58 ----------

I suppose that I should have given a more ArmA 2 specific example, because I'm a putz and didn't think that one through.

Basically I would like to have a file named, for example, "dialogue.sqf" that operates thusly, with "examplex" signifying waypoints:

if (example1 == true) then {
someUnit sideChat "This is the first message";
}
elseif(example2 == true) then {
someUnit sideChat "This is the second message";
};

I have tried setting "examplex = true" in the Condition field of both triggers and waypoints, and then putting this into a file for each message I'd like to call:

if (example[i]x[/i]) then { //code }

As well as:

if (example[i]x[/i] == true) then { //code }

And trying:

example[i]x[/i] = [true] execVM "dialogue.sqf";

In the OnAct field.

None of the above returned anything.

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