[LordFear]

I'm currently making a Chat Filter plugin for a community. I want it to be as flexible as possible and therefore needs to load the list of words from a file.

My problem is, I don't know how to store the words. Each word will contain a string (the actual word to search for), a value representing what will happen if you say the word (warning, kick or ban) and a last string used to hold the ban length (if ban is chosen).

If I use KeyValues (which I haven't used before but I understand how it works) it would probably look something like:

"WordList"
{
    "santa"
    {
        "value"        "1"
        "banlenght"    "1440"
    }
    "rudolf"
    {
        "value"        "2"
    }
    "pie"
     {
        "value"        "3"
     }
}

Would that be effective to search through for words on the fly every time someone writes in the chat?
Or would it be better building a file looking like this:

"santa" 1 1440
"rudolf" 2
"pie" 3

and then store them in one(or more) arrays?


Thanks in advanced!

[Peoples Army]

I would use arrays, and also I'm almost certain theres a better way to read and write from a text file, although I suck with read & write

[LordFear]

Originally Posted by Peoples Army I would use arrays, and also I'm almost certain theres a better way to read and write from a text file, although I suck with read & write

Would you use 3 separate arrays then, one for each value or one multidimensional?

[FaTony]

http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=109510

[LordFear]

Originally Posted by FaTony http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=109510

Thanks alot!