format

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Description

Description:

Composes a string containing other variables or other variable types. Converts any variable type to a string. If you want to convert a string back to a number, use call. The array used with this command has to contain at least two items.

Groups:

Uncategorised

Syntax

Syntax:

String = format [formatString, var1, var2 ...]

Parameters:

[formatString, var1, var2 ...]: Array

formatString: String - a string containing text and/or references to the variables listed below in the array. The references appear in the form of %1, %2 etc.

var1: Any Value - variable referenced by %1

var2: Any Value - variable referenced by %2

......And so on.

Return Value:

String - The full string is returned.

Examples

Example 1:

format ["Player side: %1 - Human players on that side: %2", side player, playersNumber side player]

returns "Player side: West - Human players on that side: 1"

Additional Information

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Notes

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Notes

Unknown

The format command is very strong in combination with call. Dynamic code can be created using format and then executed with call.

Posted on August 5, 2006 - 14:12

hardrock

Notes from before the conversion: It is not advisable to use this command with string arguments only. Better use + for string concatenation then. Read more in String operators If variables don't exist, their value as string is generally "scalar bool array string 0xfcffffef"

Dr_Eyeball

Object array parameters work very nicely. Eg: _MyArray = [Obj1, Obj2, Obj3]; Hint Format["MyArray=%1", _MyArray];

Worldeater

The maximum number of characters returned by the format command seems to depend on the total byte count. For plain ASCII strings the limit is 2048 characters.