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CALL ME B3AST
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Posted: 18th Oct 2010 18:06 Edited at: 18th Oct 2010 19:12
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Pardon my poor posting abilities, this is the first time I think I have ever posted on a forum...I have tried every possible way to assign a numeric value to an array variable like this. I don't know if I can correctly make a code snippet but here goes nothing.



It runs and compiles but the input line doesn't grab the input!?

Forgive me for sometimes I am such a noob.
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Latch
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Posted: 18th Oct 2010 23:36 Edited at: 18th Oct 2010 23:42
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Hello CALL ME B3AST,

That is a strange problem. I ran a few tests with different arrays and it seems like input won't assign a value to an array. This is either a bug or INPUT in DBC was designed this way for some reason.

There is a simple work around, assign the input to another variable first, then to the array:



Rereading your post, you say you can't "assign" a numeric value to an array. I am assuming you mean by using the INPUT command, right?

Otherwise, you assign a value to an array just like any other value by using the assignment operator (equals =).



Enjoy your day.
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CALL ME B3AST
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Posted: 19th Oct 2010 06:33
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I discovered your first solution nearly immediately after I posted...it's really odd that it doesn't work for you either. Thanks for your help!

Forgive me for sometimes I am such a noob.
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Libervurto
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Hmmm I'll make a note that you can't directly write input to arrays. DB has a lot of design flaws like this but it's quick and dirty!


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TheComet
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Posted: 20th Oct 2010 09:56
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Yeah, this problem was really annoying when I wrote my first save files for my game... This code didn't work at all:



so I had to do what Latch said in the above post:



You'd think they'd fix this problem in DBP, but they didn't...

TheComet

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BN2 Productions
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Posted: 20th Oct 2010 19:56
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Quote: ". DB has a lot of design flaws like this"


They aren't bugs, they're features

Great Quote:
"Time...LINE??? Time isn't made out of lines...it is made out of circles. That is why clocks are round!" -Caboose
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Drakkheim
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Posted: 21st Oct 2010 18:38
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and to really blow your mind, wrapping the input and assignment into its own function makes it work.
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Burning Feet Man
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Yikes. It's good to know of all this stuff! I wish these issues were documented better in the DBPro help file, or that these forums were improved/upgraded so that finding this sort of information wasn't governed by pure luck.
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