Snippet Add/Remove Delimiters To/From String

[Nestharus]

library AddRepeatedString
    //adds a string to another string in spaced intervals
    //call AddRepeatedString(1234567,"-",3,0) -> 123-456-7
    function AddRepeatedString takes string s, string str, integer spacing, integer start returns string
        local integer i = StringLength(s)
        local integer p = 1
        loop
            exitwhen p*spacing+start>=i
            set s = SubString(s,0,p*spacing+p+start-1)+str+SubString(s,p*spacing+p+start-1,StringLength(s))
            set p=p+1
        endloop
        return s
    endfunction
endlibrary

library RemoveString
    //removes all traces of a string from another string
    //0 means remove all
    //call RemoveString("123123","12",0,0) -> 33
    //call RemoveString("123-123","-",0,0) -> 123123
    
    //maxRemove is useful for removing an instance of a string once
    //call RemoveString("-load mau3-load -ffff","-load ",1,0) -> "mau3-load -ffff"
    function RemoveString takes string s, string str, integer maxRemove, integer start returns string
        local integer p = StringLength(str)
        local integer i = StringLength(s)
        local integer m = start
        if (0<i) then
            if (0==maxRemove) then
                set maxRemove=-1
            endif
            loop
                exitwhen m==i or 0==maxRemove
                if (str==SubString(s,m,m+p)) then
                    set maxRemove = maxRemove - 1
                    set s=SubString(s,0,m)+SubString(s,m+p,StringLength(s))
                    set i=i-1
                else
                    set m=m+1
                endif
            endloop
        endif
        return s
    endfunction
endlibrary

call DisplayTimedTextToPlayer(GetLocalPlayer(),0,0,60,"|"+RemoveString("-load mau3-load -ffff","-load ",1,0)+"|")
call DisplayTimedTextToPlayer(GetLocalPlayer(),0,0,60,"|"+RemoveString("-123-456-","-",0,0)+"|")
call DisplayTimedTextToPlayer(GetLocalPlayer(),0,0,60,AddRepeatedString("123456712345671234567","-",4,0))

 

[Darthfett]

You ought to rename 'RemoveDelimitersFromString' to something like 'RemoveChar', that's all it's really doing..

 

[Nestharus]

I suppose so. Really, it should be add repeated string and remove string, and they should be two separate resources. I just put them together and named them how I did with save/load in mind =).


Why I say string instead of char is because you can just as easily pass in a string ; P. One good example would be passing in "-load" for removing it from the save/load code and passing in " " for removing any spaces (not including in -load as there may be multiple spaces after load). From there you can pass in the delimiter "-" to remove those.


Is there already a script that removes strings like this and adds repeated strings?

 

[Darthfett]

I suppose so. Really, it should be add repeated string and remove string, and they should be two separate resources. I just put them together and named them how I did with save/load in mind =).

I think it would be a good idea to group a lot of save/load code string functions together for a library. Possibly to even generalize it to functions that display readable strings to an actual player. As a mapper, I would hardly find it useful to look for it as a resource (in its current state), and I may simply decide to write my own.

Why I say string instead of char is because you can just as easily pass in a string ; P.

Ah, I thought I glanced at the code and thought I saw something that indicated a limitation to characters.

Is there already a script that removes strings like this and adds repeated strings?

My stringFilter's ReplaceString function was originally a RemoveChar/RemoveString function. It has some added functionality with little to no loss in efficiency. Romek's Explode String function was also intended for splitting delimited strings. Neither has a delimiting function.

 

[Nestharus]

Ah, no max remove argument ; P.


max remove is hella useful for things like this = )
[ljass]call RemoveString("-load abcd-load -efgh","load -",1)[/ljass]

That'll remove only the "-load " at the front ;D.

 

[tooltiperror]

Please read the submission rules.

Graveyarded.

 

[Dirac]

This should go from right to left in order to support numeric separations:
AddRepeatedString(6004153,"-",3,0) -> 6,004,153

 

[Nestharus]

don't use this for numeric commas >.>, use this instead

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/1875400-post370.html

 

[Sgqvur]

Dirac:
1.This should go from right to left in order to support numeric separations:
AddRepeatedString(6004153,"-",3,0) -> 6,004,153

Nestharus:
1.don't use this for numeric commas >.>, use this instead

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/1875400-post370.html


1. Guys actually the thousands separator should be a space " " not a comma "," nor a dot ".".
The dot should be used as a decimal mark.

So:
1,234 -> 1 234
1,234,567,890 -> 1 234 567 890
1,234.567890 -> 1 234.567 890 or
1,234.567,890 -> 1 234.567 890
3,14159 -> ~PI -> 3.14159

This is SI style.

And btw I think the multiplication in mathematics when not used implicitly as in (4x) should use the programming equivalent "*" and save the dot "." for the decimal mark and the middle dot (a "." pushed a little but up) for lets say the dot product of 2 vectors.

 

[Nestharus]

I prefer commas >.>.


I've never even seen the SI style until you mentioned it. Who knows, maybe the US is weird, but I haven't seen it in international games either, so...

 

[Bribe]

The English way is to use 6,859.6923490.

In Germany you use 6.859,6923490 which really f*cks my mind I must say.

For this S.I. format, I have never heard of it.