Script arguments cannot be string?

[Cjk10000]

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str DefineMeTest; // Is there an error here? Nope :(
script 12 (str NameOfMonster) // <--- ERROR HERE
{
    print (s: NameOfMonster);
}

I tried using strings for other parts of my script and they didn't work [compiler said its invalid type]. So I made up this quick test procedure to call from Decorate and I wasn't able to use strings at all. I can use int and bool's, but why not string?

Am I coding it wrong?
Or can ACS not support string input? I tried searching the wiki for what scripts can accept in argument boxes but couldn't resolve my issue.

[NeuralStunner]

Or can ACS not support string input?

Bingo.

In short, all strings in ACS are actually included in the compiled code. There's a list of strings, each with a number. "String variables" in ACS aren't that, in the technical sense: They're integer variables to tell which string in the table to return when that string is referenced.

[Isle]

you can pass "strings" to scripts, just do (int NameOfMonster).

[Salad Viking]

I'm pretty sure you can't use string arguments for scripts because you can't have a string as the argument for a linedef (see [wiki]ACS_Execute[/wiki] and variants). You can use them all you want for functions, however.

[Ceeb]

Not if you call ACS_Execute or one of it's variants from another script.