[JoKeR LauGh]

I read the article. Global do have one serious problem, 'memory allocation issues' but I saw a lot of plugins worked perfectly using global variables some of them even a high-traffic plugin; 'Zombie Plague'

[addons_zz]

> I read the article.

What article, I am curios.

> Global do have one serious problem, 'memory allocation issues'

Try read this article: http://wiki.c2.com/?GlobalVariablesAreBad.
Also, just to not read `the article`, read all you find. Read and read, for ever and ever. Never stop reading.
Why? Because there is not one single universal truth which holds the meaning for everything.
So you need to learn to know when you are reading wrong things, and half, full, only 10% wrong/dubious information.

[JoKeR LauGh]

http://wiki.c2.com/?GlobalVariablesAreBad

Doing my best, sir.

One more question. In 'Array of Strings' .

PHP Code:

//To define an array of strings that you will assign a value to when defining:
new szString[][] = { "this" , "is" , "an" , "array" , "of" , "strings" }
//strings are then accessed via the index of string. example szString[0] = "this", szString[1] = "is"

//If values assigned during run-time (example, for storing player names or steamID's when they connect)
new szString[number of strings][length of longest string] 


should in the 2-dimension string be this?

PHP Code:

new szString[][] = { "this" , "is" , "an" , "array" , "of" , "strings", "0" } 


As, Quin had said there is always a 'NULL' character. Should "0" be there too?

[addons_zz]

> //If values assigned during run-time (example, for storing player names or steamID's when they connect)
> new szString[number of strings][length of longest string]

You cannot change the number of strings on run time for static arrays. It its because they are static so its size must to be know on compile time.
If you want to change the size on run time, consider Dynamic Arrays or create a static array which should be big enough.
For example, if you want to save a string for each server player, you can declare a array like:

new players[ MAX_PLAYERS + 1 ][ MAXIMUM_STRING_SIZE_YOU_WILL_EVER_SAVE_HERE ]

> As, Quin had said there is always a 'NULL' character.

Yes, however here "0" is not 0, it is a string within the values as 44 and 0.
When you do "Hi", pawn null terminate it for. The string will with the values as 65, 53 and 0.
String is pawn are just a chain of numbers, where the last one is always 0.
The "0" you see in strings on your screen are not the value 0 on the string array, but something like
the value 46. It is because the actual 0 is used to flag the end of the string.


> Should "0" be there too?

No, you do terminate strings, not arrays of strings. You do need to null terminate if you write you string like this.

new szString[][] = { {'s','t','r','i','g','s','^0'}, {'0','^0'} }

But only each one of the strings, not create one last string empty.

I barely strached the surface of real contents here. If I would explain to you all, it would be written a complete tutorial.
But there is not need to me to do it, there are already very good ones out there. Search for tutorials about strings in pawn.

[JoKeR LauGh]

Thank you, sir. Your explanation indeed really useful and informative. Thank you for your time.

[Grovliom]

please post more tutorials

[Bugsy]

What do you need help with

[rabbit111]

Why it says PHP code in every sentence? isn't this Pawn Programming language"? *facepalm

[fysiks]

Originally Posted by rabbit111 Why it says PHP code in every sentence? isn't this Pawn Programming language"? *facepalm

That is just the type of code block that is being used. The forum doesn't have syntax highlighting for more than just HTML and PHP. The PHP syntax highlighting works quite well for Pawn code so we use that often on these forums.