[striker07]

Anybody knows a native or stock to split strings after an amount of characters inside the string is met?

fe i have a string with maxlength of 512, I want to split up that string in strings of 128th characters, so that in this case i would have 4 strings with 128 chars in it.

Can't find a native in the Strings include that can do this

[arthurdead]

Here also instead of looking in the includes use this

[striker07]

mmmm correct me if i'm wrong but this will split a string by searching a match with a substring(split)

what i need is a similiar function but instead of split being a string it needs to be an integer to specify at wich character to split the string.

- Thats what i used to check the strings include ;)

[Powerlord]

For most languages, this would be done with repeated calls to the substring command... but SourcePawn doesn't have such a command.

However, due to how arrays work (SourcePawn Strings are arrays), you can use strcopy or Format to split strings into pieces... mainly by passing the String variable with an offset (i.e. myString[128] to start at the 129th character).

One catch: All strings have a null terminator in SourcePawn. So, to divide a 512 character string into 4 parts, the parts need to be 129 characters each, NOT 128.

It's late and I don't have time to do an example of how to do this right now.

[striker07]

ah yes right, gonna try some things tonight to see if i can get it to work.

[striker07]

hmmm loveley, works like a charm
I might make a native out of this, still can't believe sourcemod doesnt have a function like this already :s

PHP Code:

        decl String:LvlDescr[512];
    decl String:BackupDescr[2][512];
    decl String:LongDescr[4][129];
        
        Mmorpg_GetLevelDescription(lvlid, LvlDescr, 512);
    new DescrLength = strlen(LvlDescr);
    if( DescrLength < 1 )
    {
        Format(LvlDescr, 512, "No description provided");
    }
    else if( DescrLength > 128 )
    {
        new iStrParags = RoundToCeil(float(DescrLength)/128);
        
        for(new str; str<iStrParags; str++)
        {
            if( str == 0 )
            {
                Format(LongDescr[str], 129, LvlDescr);
            
                ExplodeString(LvlDescr, LongDescr[str], BackupDescr, 2, 512, true);
            }
            else {
                Format(LongDescr[str], 129, BackupDescr[1]);
                
                ExplodeString(BackupDescr[1], LongDescr[str], BackupDescr, 2, 512, true);
            }
        }
        switch( iStrParags )
        {
            case 2: { Format(LvlDescr, 512, "%s\n%s", LongDescr[0], LongDescr[1]); }
            case 3: { Format(LvlDescr, 512, "%s\n%s\n%s", LongDescr[0], LongDescr[1], LongDescr[2]); }
            case 4: { Format(LvlDescr, 512, "%s\n%s\n%s\n%s", LongDescr[0], LongDescr[1], LongDescr[2], LongDescr[3]); }
        }
    }