uses of substrings

[SanKakU]

so how about it? my map doesn't really make use of chat messages from players to perform various map functions... although just recently i finally added camera changing with chat commands, and it's subject to streamlining...but that's irrelevant to this topic.

strings are extremely useful in warcraft 3 editing...but what about substrings? i hear they're good for chat messaging commands, but, is there something else?

i tried using them but i can't find any advantage in using them. it seems like regular strings work just fine. what am i missing?

 

[Zmore]

You are right, normal / regular strings work just fine...
Substrings are more like, for example in dota:

This is a normal string: "-apem"
If you use substring, the player can type "-apem2343252523" and it will still work.
One example is:

Events
Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing "_" as an Substring
Conditions
(Matching String) Equal to (-apem)
Actions
bla bla bla...

I think that works atleast

 

[Yixx]

Well, lets say you can change your name by typing:
'-name Yixx'
How would you do that? you cant use (Entered Chat string) since it will change my name to '-name Yixx'
So, use substrings, this way you can take a part of the string and use THAT instead of the whole one,,

Other:
Lets say you have an RPG, you want the players name to change to the name of the Hero, but the Hero's name is:
Peter Paladin
(Paladin indicates the type of hero)
You want his name to change to 'Peter',, then you can use substrings,,

Yet another:
You have an Control Zone map, when you take control of one, you want to tell it to all players,
one zone is named: 'Research Center Radeon'
You dont want everyone to search for a research center building, so you only display the name,
Use substrings to display 'Radeon' or 'Yixx has Taken Zone Radeon'

Hope this helps =)

-Yixx,,-

BTW: There examples might be really silly, but it gives you an idea

 

[Adolfukin]

no use substrings it bad, rep plez

 

[SanKakU]

oh i think i get it now. you can use a string which is name of a unit or building or something like that and take only part of it and use it. right away i can't think of any uses off the top of my head for this in my map...but i'll keep it in mind as i play test it some more. hopefully i'll come up with something.

i guess this would work pretty good with game-wide announcements.

yeah definitely. this will help with most of my announcements actually. which i don't have many of but i'll use them more.