detecting digits

[callimuc]

Originally Posted by i8bit

Not saying you guys are wrong, but for me, Starfire's script is the only one I can really understand. Till new to scripting..

I'm still confused on what Return is doing in script..?

his one would just work at its best if you know/send the length of your numbers, while the one BlueMelon and me posted could be used as a function used by several scripts (like putting it into a class with custom functions)

Originally Posted by BlueMelon

From my tests, the method I posted is faster then using substring. But I'm going to assume for OP's case it doesn't really mater which is more efficient.

Interesting to know

[100Zero100]

Originally Posted by callimuc

his one would just work at its best if you know/send the length of your numbers, while the one BlueMelon and me posted could be used as a function used by several scripts (like putting it into a class with custom functions)



Interesting to know

Starfire's method works with substring() too, for multiple numbers, by using temp.num.length() looping.

I disagree with everybody. I would use .charat()

PHP Code:

function numberToArray(num) {
 for (temp.i = 0; i < num.length(); i++) {
  temp.array.add(num.charat(i)); // like num.substring(i, 1) but more efficient
 }
 return(array);
} 


So
temp.num = 426;
temp.test = numberToArray(num);

temp.test is {4, 2, 6}

You could also use charat() to most efficiently get the number at a single position, eg num.charat(1) would be 2.

EDIT: Someone beat me to charat. Darn. But looping backwards and using .insert is the same as using .add and looping forwards, Andrew.

EDIT2: I wonder if concatenation/tokenize would be more efficient than .add()? If so, temp.array = array SPC num.charat[i]; + tokenize it on the return.