[Spike]

So I've got these strings:

set "$SpearSound" to "Stab.wav"
set "$SwordSound" to "Slash.wav"
set "$WhipSound" to "Snap.wav"

And I'm trying to reference them dynamically from another robot:

sam 250 "$&$Weapon&Sound"

Didn't work.
Any ideas? How would you guys do it?

[Dr Lancer-X]

It takes some playing around to do it, and I can't quite recall at the moment. When I get to a computer that I can run MZX on it I'll try and find out again.

It _is_ doable, though. I've done it before several times.

EDIT: Actually, with what you're doing, there is no difficulty. Your command is just plain incorrect.

Essentially, what you're doing is this

sam 250 "$string"

Should be pretty clear why that won't work =p You need to interpolate it to a string, because the sam command is being fed the literal '$string' which is not what you want.

[Spectere]

I'll take a peek through the docs...be right back...

Edit: Meh, couldn't really piece anything together that worked. It was easy getting "SwordSound" (and friends) but it doesn't seem to like evaluating that (unless I'm doing something wrong, with is likely).

This post has been edited by Spectere: 04 October 2006 - 01:00 AM

[Spike]

Sorry, typed it wrong, it was supposed to be &$&$Weapon&Sound&, which doesn't work.

Edit: I need it to read as "&$SpearSound&", as I've got some 20 different sounds I'll need to use, and I'd rather not have to have an If statement and a label for all of them.

This post has been edited by Spike: 04 October 2006 - 12:59 AM

[Exophase]

You've still got it wrong. You can't double interpolate strings because they only use &&. You have to do it in two steps.

set "$sound" "&$Weapon&Sound.sam"
sam 250 "&$sound&"

You could, of course, do things the old fashioned way and just use numbers to index them instead of strings.

[Spike]

Durr, I got it working a different way, just renamed my sound files and used

sam 250 "&$Weapon&.wav"

I feel really stupid now for not thinking of that earlier. Thanks for the help though!

This post has been edited by Spike: 04 October 2006 - 02:32 AM

[Pyro1588]

what about this?

sam 250 "$('('Weapon')Sound').sam"

that's the easiest way to nest things...
but yeah, renaming them is the way to go.
edit: forgot the $.

This post has been edited by Pyro1588: 04 October 2006 - 08:53 PM

[Dr Lancer-X]

Except &$Weapon&Sound is a string. You used an expression, AND you forgot two additional $ signs to designate the strings. The original problem was interpolating nested strings, so your solution doesn't work. Expressions work with numbers, not strings.

Please, people, test your code before posting it unless you are certain it will work. To be certain code will work, you need to actually look over it once before posting it.