String question

#1 Ward,

There's loads of different file functions you can use... (I've highlighted the one you want for your problem)

getFileCRC(filename)
isFile(fileName)
isWriteableFileName(fileName)
fileExt(fileName)
[b]fileBase(fileName)[/b]
fileName(filePathName)
filePath(fileName)

You can find these and more in "consoleFunctions.cc".

Hope this helps,

- Melv.

#2 Thanks Melv,

But its not exactly what i'm looking for.
That function would return "fps/data/missions/planet1" for the above mentioned string... and it wouldn't work if there's some junk chars at the beginning of the string. Right?

Let me explain a bit better. I want to do a substring, but I need to find the last occurencce of "/" and the last occurence of "." Then I do a substring starting at "/" and ending at the "." position. So, I checked the docs, and I find functions to find the first occurence of chars, but not the last! So how would I do this in Torque scripts?

#3 Ward,

I just typed the following into Torque:-

echo( filebase("strategem/client/ui/skins/playRealmGui/viewTome.png") );

and it returns "viewTome".

Isn't this what you wanted?

filePath returns the string you mention e.g. "strategem/client/ui/skins/playRealmGui".

Torque uses this syntax: \.

- Melv.

#4 Hmmz... then the documentation is wrong. This is what I found in the docs:

Quote:
fileBase(filename)
-Used to return the base name of the file specified by filename
-Returns a string

fileBase("/fps/client/scripts/script.cs"); // will return "fps/client/scripts/script" as a string

Anyway, thanks, this should help me forward.

#5 Ward,

I've just looked at the code for filebase (which I won't post here because it's the public area) and it does what I said.

Just try it bud. :)

- Melv.

#6 Sure, I believe you, I'll try it when I get home. Just pointed out the docs are wrong then and someone might want to update them.

#7 Ward,

Which docs are you referring to? Perhaps I should drop them a message to update them.

If I ever want to know if a function is available, I normally search for references to the C-Runtime function in the codebase with a 'd' prefix e.g. 'Strrchr' becomes the abstracted 'dStrrchr'. Crude but effective. :)

- Melv.

#8 On the GG site--> Torque game engine --> documentation --> scripting reference

#9 I'll see about correcting that when I get in tomorrow.