Arrays that store arrays?

05-16-2004, 11:35 PM	#1
Narwanza	Argh, how the heck do I do this. I need a string database that hold multiple string arrays, and I need to be able to access each array and one of their elements at any given time. Something like Code: StringDatabase[WantedArray][WantedArrayElement] How on earth would I organize something like that?

05-17-2004, 01:07 AM	#2
AIAndy	Use gamecache with the name of the wanted array as category and the number of the element converted to string in the last field.

05-17-2004, 08:21 AM

Flakey

Quote:

Originally Posted by Narwanza

Argh, how the heck do I do this. I need a string database that hold multiple string arrays, and I need to be able to access each array and one of their elements at any given time. Something like

Code:

StringDatabase[WantedArray][WantedArrayElement]

How on earth would I organize something like that?

Something like this should work:

function storage takes nothing returns gamecache
return InitGameCache("storage.w3v")
endfunction

function StoreStringArray takes string value, integer first, integer second returns nothing
call StoreString(storage(), I2S(first), I2S(second), value)
endfunction

function RetrieveStringArray takes integer first, integer second returns string
return GetStoredString(storage(), I2S(first), I2S(second))
endfunction

// StoreStringArray(<valuetobestored>, first array, second array)
// String = RetrieveStringArray(first array, second array)

Not Tested

05-17-2004, 08:54 AM	#4
Narwanza	That will work perfect Andy, thanks.

05-18-2004, 04:44 PM

Vidstige

An alternative, but somewhat limited why to do it, could be to use a string array as a 2D string array.

Code:

globals 
  integer LENGTH = 42
  string array theStrings
endglobals

function set takes string value, integer arrayNum, integer pos returns nothing
  set theStrings[arrayNum*LENGTH + pos]  
endfunction

function get takes integer arrayNum, integer pos returns string
  return theStrings[arrayNum*LENGTH + pos]  
endfunction