Why isn't my character array working?

[Nash]

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#include "zcommon.acs"

str char[4];

Script 1 Open
{
    char[0] = "w";
    char[1] = "h";
    char[2] = "a";
    char[3] = "t";
    print(a: char);
}
 

Nothing gets printed. Doing

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str char[4] = { "w", "h", "a", "t" };
 

doesn't work either.

Oh and it has nothing to do with Enter/Open, and whether I use print or printbold. All combinations don't work. Also, I know it's not working because when I open the console, the text that gets logged into it is empty (with the 2 red bars at the top and bottom of the text indicating that empty text is being logged into the console).

[Isle]

you need to use characters, those are still strings. you use characters by putting ' around them IE: 'x'

[carlcyber]

Looks like a: takes a character array instead of a string array. The difference is when reading them as numbers, it would be

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str char[4] = { "w", "h", "a", "t" }
str char[4] = { 0, 1, 2, 3 } 

That's the index in the string table instead of the characters in the string.

To correct this, use characters.

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int char[4] = { 'w', 'h', 'a', 't' } 

Numbers 0, 1, 2 and 3 in ascii table are unprintable characters.
This thread discussed your question as well.

[Nash]

Whoa I totally forgot that they need to be enclosed with ' instead of ". Last time I worked with this thing was like in 2010. Cheers!