Hard Time With Variables....

[elbeardo69]

Hi,

It's past 3 in the morn and i'm still non the wiser for looking at post after post so...

My menu firstly....
Looks at a txt file, finds a string (the genre of game!!) and then I want to use a loop to store proceeding lines upto the gap (where the loop terminates), stroring the game name (each line!) in its own variable....

I would dodge in and out of a simple array in Java...

I'm just using a variable 'i' as a counter and finding it impossible to concat a string 'game' with the counter 'i' to form a variable. I can form a value easily.. but how does one change a value to a variable....

I hope this doesn't turn out as me being really thick..


My actions as they stand so far..


%GenreName% = "Trigga Hippy"
%GenreSel% = "Trig"
%LineNumber% = TextFile.FindLine ("%SrcDir%\Menu\Games.txt","%GenreName%", 0)
%i% = Evaluate (%LineNumber%+2)


WHILE (%i% < %LineCount% AND %spaceCount% < 2)

%curGame% = Evaluate (("%"+Game+%i%+"%"))

%i% = Evaluate ((%i%+1))
%tmpLineVal% = TextFile.GetLine ("%SrcDir%\Menu\Games.txt", %i%)

IF (%tmpLineVal% = " " OR %tmpLineVal% = "" OR %tmpLineVal% = " ")
%i% = Evaluate (%LineCount%)

END IF
ELSE

????????
something like
%(%curGame%)% = %tmpLineStr%

or

%("game"+%i%)% = %tmpLineStr%

This doesnt work...
help!!!!!!!


END WHILE




Page.Jump ("Genre")


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%Game1% = Evaluate (("%"+%GenreSel%+"1"+"%"))

Above is this working sort of backwards I think..
but then, does it work with %i% instead of '1'???



Hope you understand what i'm barking on about, if anyone can help then thank you loads.

Cheers

Pete

PS.. What ever happened to my new year celebrations?

[Lorne]

Re: Hard Time With Variables....

As explained in another thread:

Store the variable name in a hidden Text Object and then retrieve it; that will recursively evaluate a variable name like %game%i%%.

Or, even better: use a delimited string list, or a Global List, instead.

[elbeardo69]

Re: Hard Time With Variables....

Thanks loads sir, I'll give that a go, I'm sorry for apparent laziness on my behalf, I'll search longer next time!

Pete

[Lorne]

Re: Hard Time With Variables....

No accusation of laziness intended at all. [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif[/img] Although I did explain this in another thread a good while ago, I was actually referring to this other thread that you also started. I answered there first, and I didn't feel like explaining it twice when I ended up in this thread afterwards.