How to get a array out of a string.

[Robin Withes 0]

I have to work alot of EXTB3 and me and one of the people i script with are stuck on this (possibly) simple issue.

When we pulled a array out of the database that contains playeruids we noticed it was a string and not a array :

_original = "[`76561197979553832`,`76561198128204387`,`76561198115523495`]";

Could anyone help us out here by turning it into preferrably:

_original = [`76561197979553832`,`76561198128204387`,`76561198115523495`];

We've tried most stuff already including compiling it using toString etc, but nothing seems to work.

[pierremgi 4836]

It seems to be not so easy! Test:

_original = "[`76561197979553832`,`76561198128204387`,`76561198115523495`]";

parseSimpleArray ((_original splitString "'") joinString """");

[Robin Withes 0]

Pasted your exact code and logged the _original var.

Output is in the debug console.

 

https://gyazo.com/d3fafeb11698f504ecdec2d05364eb39

 

 

[Robin Withes 0]

As soon as i parse the array it appears to f"ck up the numbers

Example:

 

"[76561197979553832,76561198128204387,76561198115523495]" 
[7.65612e+016,7.65612e+016,7.65612e+016] //after i parse it

 

[gc8 977]

This code worked for me:

it replaces the ` with ' and then compiles it.

_original = "[`76561197979553832`,`76561198128204387`,`76561198115523495`]";
_new = "";
for "_i" from 0 to (count _original - 1) do
{
_c = _original select [_i,1];
if(_c == '`') then { _c = "'"; };
_new = _new + _c;
};

_arr = call compile _new;

player sidechat format["%1", _arr];
player sidechat format["%1", _arr select 0];

 

[Greenfist 1863]

Why not simply:

_array = _original splitString "[`,]";

Which would result in an array of strings: ["76561197979553832","76561198128204387","76561198115523495"]

Or are the ` characters necessary?

[pierremgi 4836]

2 hours ago, Robin Withes said:

Pasted your exact code and logged the _original var.

Output is in the debug console.

 

https://gyazo.com/d3fafeb11698f504ecdec2d05364eb39

 

 

 

Please play attention on your entry.

_arr = "[`76561197979553832`,`76561198128204387`,`76561198115523495`]";

is not the same as :

_arr = "['76561197979553832','76561198128204387','76561198115523495']"; // apostrophe not the same as grave accent

is not the same as :

_arr = "[76561197979553832,76561198128204387,76561198115523495]"; // without any mark

 

for this last entry, test:

_arr splitString (tostring toarray "[,]")