[JASS] SubString off BattleTag in JASS

[Alex0013]

Hey All,

I develop a map that is heavily dependent on the users's name for it's Rank Codes (load codes). So with the 1.32 update, all users have their BattleTags added...I want to just peel those off so that people can still use their load codes.

CoolPlayer#1234 I need to convert to just CoolPlayer

In Excel, I would do the following. Any thoughts on the easiest way to do this in JASS?
=MID(playerName,1,FIND("#",playerName)-1)

 

[BLOKKADE]

It's always 4 numbers right? If so this should work I imagine.

function GetPlayerNameNoTag takes string playerName returns string
    return SubString(playerName, 0, StringLength(playerName) - 5)
endfunction

just call it with GetPlayerNameNoTag(GetPlayerName(yourplayerhere)).

 

[Alex0013]

I doubt it's just 4 characters, that would only leave them 10,000 players on Battlenet. Even if it's only 4 today, it might be nice to future-proof it once they run out of numbers if they haven't already.

Anyone know how to do the find string within string?

I guess I could always loop over the string, comparing each character to "#", finding the index of that instance, and do a SubString(0,that value). Was just wondering if there was a simpler way to do it via a normal function.

 

[Pyrogasm]

I doubt it's just 4 characters, that would only leave them 10,000 players on Battlenet.

10,000 players per unique username.

 

[Alex0013]

Ah ok. Cool thanks! I was familiar enough with the BattleTags so wasn’t sure how they worked. I’ll start with this for now and if I have to change again, I’ll do that!

Thanks for the help!

 

[Alex0013]

So that worked for most people. Issue is people with long usernames it seems, pink would have 2 more letters in his name, but it’s getting cut off.

Also for some reason 2 of the guys still have #...so I’m guessing the numbers have gone out to 5 digits now...

 

[Pyrogasm]

Then the simplest solution is to scan through the names from back to front character-by-character until you encounter a #. Then pick everything before it as the username.

 

[Alex0013]

Yeah, I’ll have to figure out the Jass for that this weekend maybe. I always hate loops my brain hates thinking about them

 

[Pyrogasm]

function RemoveBTag takes string name returns string
  local integer i = StringLength(name)

  loop
    set i = i-1
    exitwhen i < 0
    if SubString(name, i, i+1) == "#" then
      return SubString(name, 0, i)
    endif
  endloop

  return name
endfunction

 

[Alex0013]

<3 You’re the best!

 

[Pyrogasm]

I just fixed the “ characters my phone input instead of regular quotes. If you get errors, just retype them yourself.