Tokenize

[XilosTinsu]

OK I'm a fairly decent scripter but not super good at it, but I'm trying to learn and I have no idea what tokenize does or is used for, can someone give me a simple example of what it does and like a basic NPC that uses it, ANYTHING.

[Brandon_Bravo]

Certainly.

Tokenizing a string separates it into units called tokens.

For example:

if a playerchats and says:

warpto 30 30 onlinestartlocal.graal

#t(1) would be the first 30
#t(2) would be the second 30
#t(3) would be onlinestartlocal.graal

[ Tokens are called by using the form #t(ID) ]

An example of this is:

NPC Code:

---

if (playerchats) {

 if (startswith(warpto,#c)) {

  levelwarp();

 }

}

function levelwarp() {

  tokenize #c;

  setstring this.level,#t(1);

  setstring this.x,#t(2);

  setstring this.y,#t(3);

  setlevel2 #s(this.level),#s(this.x),#s(this.y);

}

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That is a small example of Tokenizing.

[Bravo_NPC-Admin1]

Tokenize breaks up a string into sections, or tokens. Take this string for example:
Tokenize this string for me

If you call tokenize with this string, it would create:
#t(0)=tokenize
#t(1)=this
#t(2)=string
#t(3)=for
#t(4)=me

There are some exceptions:
Tokenize "this string" for me

When tokenized:
#t(0)=tokenize
#t(1)=this string
#t(2)=for
#t(3)=me

You can see that everything inbetween parenthesis are taken as 1 token. There you go.

[XilosTinsu]

Well thanx alot you've helped out a bunch.