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Best way to store variables relating to players?

I'm used to OOP languages where I can do stuff like:

Code:

player.MyVar = blah

But as far as I can tell, there's no equivalent way to do this in SoucePawn (besides keyvalues, but their use is limited).

The next best thing I could think of is to store the info in arrays, but that would require over a dozen arrays per person and it would be a PITA to manage them as players constantly connect and disconnect.

(on that note, are there multidimensional arrays in sourcepawn, e.g. array[foo][bar]? )

Is there a better way of handling this?

Cheers.

Re: Best way to store variables relating to players?

An easy way to store stuff and access named variables for each player would be enums, before I show you how I'll tell you that multidimensional arrays are possible in SourcePawn.
Example.

PHP Code:


		
			
enum PlayerInfo
{
    Name,
    SomeNumber
};

new player[MAXPLAYERS][PlayerInfo];

This makes it easy to manage each player. You can access each players info through their index, an example.

PHP Code:


		
			
public OnClientConnected(client)
{
    player[client][SomeNumber] = GetRandomInt(0, MAXPLAYERS);
}

Now the SomeNumber array index within player is a random number between 0 and 65.
enums are really just enumerated names that start with 0, so SomeNumber is really just index 1.

Re: Best way to store variables relating to players?

I'm surprised sourcepawn has enums. They should work great.

Thanks for the help :)