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Phaelax
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2013 22:22 Edited at: 22nd Oct 2013 23:21
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Returns data from a comma delimited string such as:

2,1,"Buy medicine before","you go",2,4,40,1,0,5,68,0,0,0,1,0

Just specify which chunk(pos) you want. For instance, getChunk$(4,text$) would return "you go", including the quotes. Commas inside quotes are ignored, so you get the entire string you expect. Useful for reading in human-readable file formats like game save data.



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Posted: 22nd Oct 2013 22:27 Edited at: 22nd Oct 2013 22:32
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You've not seen the GetStringToken() command, have you my good man?

GetStringToken(text$,",",4) would do the same thing.

Edit: Ahh, noticed you ignore commas inside quotes. Hmmm. That could make it more useful! Cool stuff. Definitely see a use for this logic.
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2013 22:54
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I thought there was a tokenizer but I couldn't find the commands.

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Posted: 22nd Oct 2013 23:06
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To be fair though, getstringtoken() would split an entry in quotes if the delimiter was inside the quotes, so yours does provide something different.
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Made a correction to the code to where it wasn't grabbing the full string if a comma was in the quotes. (the key point of this!) It's fixed now.

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Posted: 22nd Oct 2013 23:23
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I wrote a selection of CSV commands (Based loosely around the command set in IanM's matrix utilities plugin set for DBP) when I first started converting my DBP Game Template to AGK.

I noticed (and have used in smaller projects) the GetStringToken() command, but have yet to implement it into the template.

I like the way your snippet ignores stuff inside quotes, that's a nice touch

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