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String parsing / tokens / split
I was sure I had gotten this working once but it could just be various languages blurring in my head..
I know that we can split strings in Twine2 (Harlowe) using the original (substring:) and the new "abcde"'s (a: 2,4) , but both require a range of start-to-end to extract.
And there is (count:) for how many times something appears and (contains:) for checking if something exists, and I think there was even an index somewhere that I'm not finding right this second..
What I cannot seem to find anywhere though (and maybe its because the search parameters are just too common to search effectively on google / here / twine2.neocities.org is:
How do you take a string (eg: "Hello World Foo") and get it converted into an array with a the delimiter (eg. " ")?
I know the long (and slow) way of doing it might be to go character by character searching for the token, than get the substring from 'start' to 'current-1' or something, but that is really ugly. The hard fast way might be to go back and figure out how to do the twine-javascript bit but I am trying to not keep mixing languages (why I've been so excited by Twine).. Is there something already in place so I don't have to figure out how to reinvent the wheel?
Much thanks!
I know that we can split strings in Twine2 (Harlowe) using the original (substring:) and the new "abcde"'s (a: 2,4) , but both require a range of start-to-end to extract.
And there is (count:) for how many times something appears and (contains:) for checking if something exists, and I think there was even an index somewhere that I'm not finding right this second..
What I cannot seem to find anywhere though (and maybe its because the search parameters are just too common to search effectively on google / here / twine2.neocities.org is:
How do you take a string (eg: "Hello World Foo") and get it converted into an array with a the delimiter (eg. " ")?
I know the long (and slow) way of doing it might be to go character by character searching for the token, than get the substring from 'start' to 'current-1' or something, but that is really ugly. The hard fast way might be to go back and figure out how to do the twine-javascript bit but I am trying to not keep mixing languages (why I've been so excited by Twine).. Is there something already in place so I don't have to figure out how to reinvent the wheel?
Much thanks!
Comments
In Javascript I went ahead and put:
In Twine then I could do:
(set: $commandToSplit to "test command split") (set: $commandOutput to $commandToSplit.spl(" ")) Length: (print: $commandOutput.length) 2nd Element: (print: $commandOutput's 2nd)And it seems to work fine - thank you @prof_yaffle