setWord

[Vaux]

setWord won't seem to work for me.  Has it been removed or broken?

In the console to test this out I did:

$a = "1 1 1";
setWord($a, 1, "3");
echo($a);

When it echos, $a still reads as 1 1 1 when it should've been 1 3 1.

[Ad Bot]

[Lugnut]

I've never heard of that function. Does it even exist? Try $a = setword($a, 1, "3");

[Vaux]

It doesn't give me a syntax error whenever I input it, which tells me that its a function.  And I also used this reference: https://bldocs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/string.html

I've never heard of that function. Does it even exist? Try $a = setword($a, 1, "3");

Awesome, thanks.  That worked.

[Johnny Blockhead]

setWork

hmmmmm

[boodals 2]

setWord and other functions don't automatically modify the variable you give them. You have to use %variable = function(%variable, %args)

Also, isn't setWord 0 indexed (first word is 0)?

[Vaux]

setWord and other functions don't automatically modify the variable you give them. You have to use %variable = function(%variable, %args)

Also, isn't setWord 0 indexed (first word is 0)?

It's indexed

hmmmmm

LOL, just noticed that

[Scriode]

'string setword(var text, var index, var replace); - Used to replace the word at index with replace within text.'
 - TorqueDev

[$trinick]

Booldals is correct. No Torque function can modify the variable pushed to it unless it is global. Even then, it creates a local copy of it.

%a = "1 1 1";
%a = setWord(%a, 1, "3");
echo(%a);

Similarly, doing this:

Code: [Select]

function addOne(%num) { %num = %num + 1; }

%x = 1;
addOne(%x);
echo(%x);

will echo 1.

[Scriode]

Right, it returns a value. You assign that returned value to some sort of variable of your choice. It is the same for quite a bit of languages.

[Port]

Booldals is correct. No Torque function can modify the variable pushed to it unless it is global. Even then, it creates a local copy of it.

Doesn't nextToken set a local variable in the callee's scope? I don't remember though because I never use it for anything.

[$trinick]

Doesn't nextToken set a local variable in the callee's scope? I don't remember though because I never use it for anything.

Okay, you're right. I made a sweeping generalization. But token handling functions are the only functions I know of that do this, so it's an extreme exception.