How to get the position of a value in an array?

[sickboy 13]

I am creating a script for custom faces for the llauma heads, that puts on specific faces depending on the name of the unit...

I am using these codebits in a script in the init eventhandlers of my units:<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">_u=_this select 0

_playn=name _u

_face=format["SIX_%1",_playn]

_u setFace _face

to select the right face from the faces pbo I created.

The problem now arises .. that when a player has a space in his name.. it will not work, since the class definitions of the faces do not allow spaces, of coarse.

I was breaking my head about a solution and came up with either removing the space from the name with some kind of string manipulation, of which I don't think is possible in OFP....(plz correct me if im wrong!!

Or, create 2 arrays, the first with the playernames with a space, the second with the playernames (or other facedesignation) without a space.

Then lookup on which position the playername is in array1, and then select the right face from array2.

Now the question is...how do I lookup the position of the playername in array1, so I can use it to get the corresponding face from array2?

The hard way would be to count the faces and do a 1on1 check on every face and then use this codebit to determine the position:<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">while "_i >0" do {_ppos=(_i - 1); if ((SIX_FACES select _ppos) == _playn) then { _i=0 }; _i=(_i - 1) }

_playns=(SIX_FACESS select _ppos)

_face=format["SIX_%1_%2",_playns,_typ]

Any help, or alternatives welcome & appreciated!

The above code is a working codebit from my code, but it's a bit much calculation in comparison to a possible simple command to obtain the position of a value within an array

[UNN 0]

Hi,

You can add the real names to a stringtable.csv file in your addon, for all the names you want to check.

Then use the localize command to retrieve the face name assigned to the real name:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">_Face=Localize "REAL NAME"

It works with spaces, but I'm not sure what other characters it supports.

[sickboy 13]

Hi,

You can add the real names to a stringtable.csv file in your addon, for all the names you want to check.

Then use the localize command to retrieve the face name assigned to the real name:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">_Face=Localize "REAL NAME"

It works with spaces, but I not sure what other characters it supports.

Holy crap, great idea.. gonna fiddle around with it

[hoz 0]

Moving to ME & S.