#Split strings discussion
queen glacier
civic urchin
hey
queen glacier
ok
civic urchin
https://github.com/JEFF-Media-GbR/MorePersistentDataTypes
Wait
is that compatible with your other api, (which i'm using) the one for the blocks
feral sluice
sure
queen glacier
So as far as I understand you have a string like "A☇B☇C" and you want it to be a List "A", "B", "C"
civic urchin
So as far as I understand you have a string like "A☇B☇C" and you want it to be a...
exactly
feral sluice
is that compatible with your other api, (which i'm using) the one for the blocks
you can just do DataType.STRING_ARRAY with the lib I've sent
civic urchin
you can just do DataType.STRING_ARRAY with the lib I've sent
okay
civic urchin
(you can limit it with some parameters)
yeah but this strings can also contain spaces... will it break?
queen glacier
The split method has a problem: it breaks when you have a string which contains the separator
spaces dont matter?
whats so special about spaces
spaces are characters
newlines are characters
civic urchin
i don't know, its the first time i'm trying this
queen glacier
"☇" is a character
one thing tho
if you try and save a "☇" then it obviously breaks
civic urchin
if you try and save a "☇" then it obviously breaks
ah
queen glacier
lets say you have the list:
"A☇G", "B", "C"
and save and restore then you get
"A", "G", "B", "C"
feral sluice
so if i save ☇ to a String on PDC it will break
why don't you just use one of the libraries we've sent?
heady pewter
The name of the thread is confusing
queen glacier
gep i just wanted to escape the gui discussion+
i did not bother to think of a name
civic urchin
why don't you just use one of the libraries we've sent?
Yeah i know, i'm just trying to understand how does this thing work
queen glacier
Split strings discussion
queen glacier
Yeah i know, i'm just trying to understand how does this thing work
its very simple
string.split goes through your string
civic urchin
okay tysm
queen glacier
and every time it finds the delimeter it splits the string there
feral sluice
Yeah i know, i'm just trying to understand how does this thing work
my library uses native string arrays, no need to worry about any delimiters
feral sluice
well actually with your lib i can just save the itemstack
sure, you can use itemstacks or itemstack arrays
didnt know you need that
queen glacier
(string as in cotton or smth)
oh yeah you could also just serialize, but thats a mess
civic urchin
imagine if you had a string with red markings
yeah i understand how split works, at first i thought it will just do the first one that it finds
queen glacier
yeah no its not like Cs strtok
civic urchin
i'm saving data to a block so when i break it i get the item back with all the correct itemmeta's values
so i was doing the lore
and i stumbled around this problem
so thanks, all!
feral sluice
then just use DataType.ITEMSTACK and save that inside the block's PDC
queen glacier
library is the way to go
delimeter based string storage is funny and hacky
but I will find your delimeter and break your plugins legs
if I ever come on your server
feral sluice
actually my CBD lib even has an example to save itemstacks inside blocks without any other libraries -> https://github.com/JEFF-Media-GbR/CustomBlockData-Example
as said, this one doesn't use MorePersistentDataTypes but instead manually serializes the itemstack. you can avoid that by using MorePersistentDataTypes, too
civic urchin
You have an API for everything 🤣