(solved) [zscript] partial string match?

[Jekyll Grim Payne]

I wonder if it's possible to match two string values partially, i.e. if a string contains "WOOD" in it, ignoring characters before and after?

[_mental_]

Sure, when String.IndexOf() returns positive number or zero.

[Jekyll Grim Payne]

Thanks!

[D2JK]

A question related to this... in the below code, I was wondering why it's necessary to use String.Format() in front of this function, considering that GetClassName() returns a string already:

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if ( String.Format(GetClassName()).IndexOf("Vile") )


instead of

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if ( GetClassName().IndexOf("Vile") )


[phantombeta]

Because the wiki is wrong, actually. GetClassName returns a name, not a string, and names are ints generated from a string with a hashing algorithm (so that different strings get different numbers).

That said, using String.Format like that is janky IMO. It's abusing the fact that the compiler will implicitly cast names to strings. Which is fine, since apparently there's no explicit casting, but there's a much simpler, better and less performance-wasting way to do it:

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            string className = GetClassName ();
            if (className.IndexOf ("Vile")) 

[D2JK]

Ok, that's good to know, thanks. Actually, I'm aware of using a separate string variable like you showed, I just considered the code I wrote to be more compact. Didn't know it wastes performance, though.