[RoflCakesInUrFace]

I recently started with sourcemod and I ran into a bit of a problem with the limited file I/O available in sourcemod plugins.
I need to store several lists (basically in categories) of int values in a file and retrieve them into several arrays or a single lookup table but I don't know how I would go about doing this correctly (as in not a horrible hack).
Any help getting me on the right track would be appreciated.

[headline]

What are you trying to accomplish?

[RoflCakesInUrFace]

I am storing a list of weapon item indexes (Separated into categories) that the plugin will trigger on. I was testing with a hardcoded lookup table.

[headline]

Originally Posted by RoflCakesInUrFace I am storing a list of weapon item indexes

Like, weapon names in an array or actual entity indexes?

Can we see some code

[RoflCakesInUrFace]

The plugin was created with the intent of messing with my friends, it does something to them if certain weapons are equipped.

I want to populate this table from an external file so I don't have to recompile it when I want to change something.

I intend to add more to it once I have the config feature working.

// Lookup table for weapon definition indexes
// TODO: Replace with an external list/config
int ItemLookup[][] = {

    {	// Remove all the player's weapons if they equip these
		
	415,
	231
		
    },
	
    { // Slows down the player if these are equipped 
			
	30667,
        163,
        44
    },
};

[ofir753]

Read about sorting, if you are not experienced with sorting try use bubble sort or insertion sort, if you want more efficency use merge sort.

[RoflCakesInUrFace]

Originally Posted by ofir753 Read about sorting, if you are not experienced with sorting try use bubble sort or insertion sort, if you want more efficency use merge sort.

Sorry, but you may have misread. I want to store the values in an external file and retrieve them(in a non hackish way) to populate the table posted above. I am very aware of sorting algorithms and their differences.

[headline]

Best way in my opinion would probably be a simple KeyValues file. Consider this

KeyValues file

"ItemLookup"
{
	"Remove"
	{
		"Some text here it doesnt matter but use this to identify different weapons and stuff"
		{
			"value" "415"
		}
		
		"Some more text that doesn't matter"
		{
			"value" "231"
		}
		
	}
	
	"Slow"
	{
		"Doesn't matter"
		{
			"value" "30667"
		}
		
		"Again Doesn't matter"
		{
			"value" "30667"
		}
		
		"Doesn't matter pt 22"
		{
			"value" "44"
		}

	}
}

You can edit the file as needed, but just parse the file every time the map starts with something like this.

Code

PHP Code:

public void OnMapStart()
{
    ArrayList removeWeapons = new ArrayList();
    ArrayList slowWeapons = new ArrayList();
    
    char path[PLATFORM_MAX_PATH];
    BuildPath(Path_SM, path, sizeof(path), "configs/somefile.txt");
    
    KeyValues keyvalues = new KeyValues("ItemLookup");
    keyvalues.ImportFromFile(path);
    
    if (keyvalues.JumpToKey("Remove") && keyvalues.GotoFirstSubKey())
    {
        keyvalues.GotoFirstSubKey();
        int number;
        do
        {
            number = keyvalues.GetNum("value");
            
            removeWeapons.Push(number);
        } while (keyvalues.GotoNextKey())
        keyvalues.Rewind();
    }
    
    if (keyvalues.JumpToKey("Slow") && keyvalues.GotoFirstSubKey())
    {

        int number;
        do
        {
            number = keyvalues.GetNum("value");
            
            slowWeapons.Push(number);
        } while (keyvalues.GotoNextKey())
        keyvalues.GoBack();
    }

    delete keyvalues;
} 


Just be sure to male slowWeapons and removeWeapons global variables.

[RoflCakesInUrFace]

Completely overlooked keyvalues. Whoops. Anyways, that code was really easy to integrate into the plugin with some very minor modification and it works great. Thanks for the help.

[Fyren]

There isn't really a reason to not flatten out the keyvalues data if you're going to do it that way:

"root"
{
  "slow" "foo"
  "slow" "bar"
  "remove" "baz"
  "remove" "quux"
}

But the code to parse it will be different.

Two separate files with one number per line can be parsed with just a ReadFileLine loop and StringToInt.