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string compare versus something in an array? (Harlowe)
I think I am (once again) missing something very basic here - perhaps array content having to be de-referenced or something?
comes out as
Is there a way (in Harlowe) of figuring out if a string in a given array == another string? I've tried a few other variations of above (brackets or parenthesis around $_errorCode's 1st, not putting quotation marks around "NA", etc. no luck), the Harlowe documentation only talks about 'is', 'is not' and 'contains' (which, as above, does not work - contains having the added problem of not being a hard compare, so if a parameter was something like "Nature" it would come out as a match) I can't seem to find anything explicitly in the forums about this (though I'm sure someone's code must be doing it), and I don't want to necessarily check 'if a string is *anywhere* in the array' so much as at a specific index?
(set: $_errorCodes to (array: "NA","NA","NA")) (print: $_errorCodes's 1st) (if: $_errorCode's 1st is "NA")[1st was "NA"] (elseif: $_errorCode's 1st is not "NA")[1st was NOT "NA"] (if: $_errorCode's 1st contains "NA")[1st contains NA]
comes out as
NA 1st was NOT "NA"
Is there a way (in Harlowe) of figuring out if a string in a given array == another string? I've tried a few other variations of above (brackets or parenthesis around $_errorCode's 1st, not putting quotation marks around "NA", etc. no luck), the Harlowe documentation only talks about 'is', 'is not' and 'contains' (which, as above, does not work - contains having the added problem of not being a hard compare, so if a parameter was something like "Nature" it would come out as a match) I can't seem to find anything explicitly in the forums about this (though I'm sure someone's code must be doing it), and I don't want to necessarily check 'if a string is *anywhere* in the array' so much as at a specific index?
Comments
a. You left of the s character at the end of the $_errorCodes variable name in the (if:) and (elseif:) macros.
b. The contains keyword is meant to be used on an array, not an array element.
These is also a possible future issue with your $_errorCodes variable name, the developer of Harlowe is currently planing on using the underscore character _ to indicate local variable scope. I don't know if this will effect you or not, it depends on the regex used and the order they are processed.
I feel incredibly silly now - also thanks for letting me know about the _ ! I'll come up with something different, I was actually going to use it as a way of indicating global variables in my code so I wouldn't accidentally trip over them. Yay for letting me know about this before I got too far into the new revision