About S2I

07-15-2006, 12:50 PM	#1
Mezzer	Which integer does this return exactly? I know it'll spit out something seemingly unrelated, but I'd like to know what

07-15-2006, 02:11 PM	#2
shadow1500	S2I will convert a integer written in string form to an integer. Like S2I("123") will become 123.

07-15-2006, 02:58 PM	#3
Mezzer	Obviously, but "hat" would return what?

07-15-2006, 02:59 PM	#4
iNfraNe	0

07-15-2006, 03:11 PM	#5
Mezzer	So it doesn't do anything intelligent with strings that contain anything other than numbers? Is there a built in function that does maybe?

07-15-2006, 03:54 PM	#6
Hemlock	you can fill integers with strings, would be the first thing that pops up in my mind

07-15-2006, 04:48 PM	#7
BertTheJasser	To make something usefull out of "hat" you would have to use return bug exploiters (this is a 100% sure method, as iI do it myself - you can it even convert vice versa with return bug and get the intial string recreated).

07-15-2006, 04:49 PM	#8
Vexorian	That's not 100% safe at all

07-15-2006, 04:52 PM	#9
Mezzer	Exactly, that's why I asked if anyone knew precisely what the function did, since the return bug thing ain't working right

07-15-2006, 04:54 PM	#10
Vexorian	you can just hash the string to get a number in a range that is different for different strings

07-15-2006, 05:02 PM	#11
Mezzer	That's exactly what I need, except I have no idea how to do it

07-15-2006, 05:02 PM

#12

BertTheJasser

Oh! I use it in this way and till now it has done its job perfectly

JASS:

function i2s takes integer i returns string
return i
return ""
endfunction

function s2i takes string s returns integer
return s
return 0
endfunction

function Msg takes string s returns nothing
call DisplayTimedTextToPlayer(GetLocalPlayer(),0,0,60,s)
endfunction


function ...
local string blah=i2s(bj_forLoopAIndex)
call Msg(blah)
..
endfunction

function ...
set bj_forLoopAIndex=i2s("halligalli is a great game!")
call ExecuteFunc("the func above")

As said, it works

Btw. did you look at the extended damage options?

07-15-2006, 05:02 PM

#13

Vexorian

Oh my god, using return bug on strings seems to work now, even i2s(0) doesn't crash anymore, blizzard might have updated this

(I tested it myself before reading to bert's post)

A while ago I was using it since storing integers in gamecache is faster than storing strings. But it was crashing all the time.

Edit: It still crashes when using an integer that is not a string. Better try to reproduce the index clearing bug

07-15-2006, 05:06 PM	#14
BertTheJasser	As i've said. It works PERFECTLY!

07-15-2006, 05:07 PM	#15
Vexorian	The other time strings were getting lost after a while and it crashed. I think I even have a post about that in wc3jass.com but that was a while ago