Case Sensetive weapon names...

[barmyarmy 0]

Weapon names in ARMA and probably OFP are case sensetive, when detecting weapons.

The following will always work..

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player addWeapon "STINGER";

player selectWeapon "STINGER";

The following will NOT yeild the expected result...

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if ( "STINGER" in weapons player) then {

hint "has a Stinger";

} else {

hint "has no stinger";

}

... but this will...

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if ( "Stinger" in weapons player) then {

hint "has a Stinger";

} else {

hint "has no stinger";

}

A further warning using sidechat to list weapons will result in the weapon list being force to upper case, hints are left in the orginal case...

[t_d 47]

This is due to the 'in' command which is case sensetive for strings. The boolean operators == and != are not case sensitive so

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if ( "StInGeR" == (weapons player) select 0) then {

hint "has a Stinger";

} else {

hint "has no stinger";

} should work.

[Big Dawg KS 6]

This is due to the 'in' command which is case sensetive for strings. The boolean operators == and != are not case sensitive so

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

if ( "StInGeR" == (weapons player) select 0) then {

 hint "has a Stinger";

} else {

hint "has no stinger";

}

should work.

Yes that is true but your provided 'alternative' only checks the first item in the weapons array, to check them all using those operators you can try:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">if({_X == "stinger"} count weapons player > 0)then{hint "has a Stinger";}else{hint "has no stinger";};

This is an identical alternative to using the in command, the only difference is it's not case-sensitive. However it's usually just easier to use the in command and get the cases right.

[t_d 47]

this was supposed to be a code example and no alternative. But you are right. Next time I will post the alternative instead of a similar example. That is just confusing for others

[Op4 BuhBye 0]

I also learned in OFP that if you for instance, call for a script in a trigger "[] exec "XXX.sqs"" and you name the script "xxx.sqs" it intermitantly caused MP issue with random people.

The same thing if you named a unit XXX and called the unit xxx in a script.

[barmyarmy 0]

Ok, so the "in" function is case sensitive...

I didn't realise that == was case-insensitive, but I suppose if it wasn't I'd have noticed before now and bitched about that too... *;/

Thanks for the code snippet Kyle, that does get round the problem nicely. Any idea what sort of performance hit you get using the hand-rolled function as oppose to the inbuilt "in" function ?

BA

[Big Dawg KS 6]

Thanks for the code snippet Kyle, that does get round the problem nicely. Any idea what sort of performance hit you get using the hand-rolled function as oppose to the inbuilt "in" function ?

BA

In this case, none.