[MrPickles]

Originally Posted by GoldNux Thanks a lot, much appreciated! But I have a question. Instead of making many cvars and variables I would like to parse a long string like I mentioned before. But I'm not sure how to handle a user NOT placing a weapon in the string. For example, I can use the parse function to split: "ak47 usp flash flash smoke" Only if I know the user will put exactly four items in there. The only solution I can think of is making tons of cvars like: PHP Code: new g_cVarTerroristPrimWepRound1 new g_cVarTerroristSecWepRound1 new g_cVarTerroristGrenadeRound1 new g_cVarTerroristArmorRound1  But it looks like shit and takes a lot of time. Any ideas on how to solve this in a clean way? Maybe telling the user to put "weapon_none" and follow a syntax? Thanks again.

I think this could guide you through that, it doesn't use cvars, but I could help you with the issue of giving the weapons and the strings use

https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=245803

[GoldNux]

Originally Posted by MrPickles I think this could guide you through that, it doesn't use cvars, but I could help you with the issue of giving the weapons and the strings use https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=245803

Very nice! Thanks a ton.
I will take a look at it tomorrow.

5 am over here, time to get some sleep.
Goodnight thanks again.

[fysiks]

Originally Posted by MrPickles what elegance? if those are your priorities and "good habits" when coding you are very bad, in a code efficiency, saving unnecessary operations, making it more optimal are real priorities

I don't use 1980's computers any more.

Originally Posted by GoldNux Thanks a lot, much appreciated! But I have a question. Instead of making many cvars and variables I would like to parse a long string like I mentioned before. But I'm not sure how to handle a user NOT placing a weapon in the string. For example, I can use the parse function to split: "ak47 usp flash flash smoke" Only if I know the user will put exactly four items in there. The only solution I can think of is making tons of cvars like: PHP Code: new g_cVarTerroristPrimWepRound1 new g_cVarTerroristSecWepRound1 new g_cVarTerroristGrenadeRound1 new g_cVarTerroristArmorRound1  But it looks like shit and takes a lot of time. Any ideas on how to solve this in a clean way? Maybe telling the user to put "weapon_none" and follow a syntax? Thanks again.

You can parse a string into multiple strings dynamically and then validate each one as you parse them to make sure they are valid weapon names.

Whether or not to use multiple cvars really depends on how many you'd have to create. If it's just 4 and they have specific use cases then I don't see any major issues with creating 4 cvars. If you need to have more complex configuration then you probably want to do it with files instead of cvars.

To get the best advice, I think you may need to better describe what you're trying to do. How many weapons are you needing to store? How are they going to be used?

[MrPickles]

Originally Posted by fysiks I don't use 1980's computers any more.

That lets me see what kind of coder you are lol, no matter the machine, coding efficiently and optimally should be a habit, a good habit, like i do

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I think that u need a menu instead of using cvars, you should adapt that plugin to a new one, a menu that opens, you choose the weapons, and when you have them all(like a shopping cart, which is what you want from what I understand) you press give for example

using many cvars for that is very tedious and inefficient, but as I said, take a look and if you still want to make a cvar ask questions

[zXCaptainXz]

Looks like you didn't hear of compile-time operations. Not all operations are handled at runtime, if the compiler detects code that doesn't need to be computed at runtime, it will automatically do that computation once and for all instead of running it every time. Don't believe it? Here's the output of an amxx decompiler (amxxdump), which is what the AMXX file contains in the end.

PHP Code:

#include <amxmodx>

new array[32]

public test()
{
    new a = charsmax(array)
    new b = sizeof(array) - 1
    new c = 31
} 


0x8                        PROC              ; public test()
0xC                       BREAK 
0x10                      BREAK 
                                             ; new a
0x14                     PUSH.C  0x1F       
0x1C                      BREAK 
                                             ; new b
0x20                     PUSH.C  0x1F       
0x28                      BREAK 
                                             ; new c
0x2C                     PUSH.C  0x1F       
0x34                      STACK  0xC         ; free 3 cells
0x3C                   ZERO.pri 
0x40                       RETN

PHP Code:

#include <amxmodx>

new array[32]

public test()
{
    new a = 31
    new b = 31
    new c = 31
} 


0x8                        PROC              ; public test()
0xC                       BREAK 
0x10                      BREAK 
                                             ; new a
0x14                     PUSH.C  0x1F       
0x1C                      BREAK 
                                             ; new b
0x20                     PUSH.C  0x1F       
0x28                      BREAK 
                                             ; new c
0x2C                     PUSH.C  0x1F       
0x34                      STACK  0xC         ; free 3 cells
0x3C                   ZERO.pri 
0x40                       RETN

Both versions are EXACTLY the same, in the 1st version it says 0x1F (31 in hex) 3 times despite the fact that I used sizeof and charsmax. Unless you are worried for the sanity of your system while it's compiling the plugin, using charsmax and sizeof is definitely the better option.

[Natsheh]

Honestly @fysiks i don't know why're you still bothering with this shmuck !?

[MrPickles]

Originally Posted by Natsheh Honestly @fysiks i don't know why're you still bothering with this shmuck !?

https://forums.alliedmods.net/showpo...39&postcount=3
https://forums.alliedmods.net/showpo...43&postcount=4

It seems that he has not answered yet, you are the one who knows the least the basics and speaks xd
on the other hand, absolutely off topic your post, 5 posts in a row in which you post off topic, if I were an administrator I would have banned you a while ago