ACS TakeInventory not taking the right value.

[SFJake]

Since my mod has a lot of levels, I wanted to make a simple scripts that decides, based on your levels, how much XP is required, and do all that leveling stuff, instead of making them one by one.

My problem? It levels up fine (the first level needs 100 XP, 99 doesn't trigger it, 100 does), and it uses the same variable to remove XP. However, instead of removing 100 XP, it removes 217.

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script 997 ENTER
{
if (level <= 0)
	{
	GiveInventory ("SFLevel", 1);
	delay(1);
	}


exp = CheckInventory ("SFXP");
level = CheckInventory ("SFLevel");
newlevel = level+1;

if (level >= 0 && level < 21)
	{
	addexp = 0;
	pastlevel = 0;
	multexp = 100;
	}
else if (level >= 20 && level < 41)
	{
	addexp = 2000;
	pastlevel = 20;
	multexp = 200;
	}

requiredexp = addexp+((level-pastlevel)*multexp);

if (exp >= requiredexp)
	{
	GiveInventory ("SFLevel", 1);
	GiveInventory ("SFSkillPoint", 5);
	TakeInventory ("SFXP", "requiredexp");
	Print(s:"You have reached Level \cj", d:newlevel);
	delay(1);
	}

delay(35);
Restart;
}

I'm not getting it. Like, at all.

[Isle]

take the quotes off "requiredexp" in takeinventory(), it's not a string

[Worst]

when you use the quotation marks, it ends up as a string in the stringtable, and when used as an argument there, it returns its index within the table, which probably just happened to be 217.

[SFJake]

Oh... Well, thanks, that explains it, not that I really get it. I thought the quotation marks had to be used for it to be read correctly since its not a number. Thats called getting used to decorate functions like A_Jump :/