Concatenation of stats and variables

Game Development ChoiceScript Help
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Hello, I’m having trouble with stats screen. Not sure how to explain but I want players to choose three apparance variables (skin color, eyes and hair etc.) and I want to show this variables under appearance title on the stats screen.

My code looks like this:

*set appearance (skin2&", ")&eyes2

This works but whenever I try to add &hair2

*set appearance (skin2&", ")&eyes2&hair2

it doesn’t work.

2

I assume you’ve taken a look at this, but I’ll put it here for a resource.

3

Yes, but unfortunately I’ve the analytic brain of a baboon and couldn’t understand a thing…

4

Well, I know two ways for doing this. The first is the one you’re currently trying: grouping them in parentheses. It’s like this

*set firstname "John"
*set lastname "Smith"
*set title "Mr."
then
*set fullname (((title&" ")&firstname)&" ")&lastname)

That’s the complicated way, because it’s a bit hard to get the parentheses right.

The other way I know is the “long” way, that consist of setting the string using a chain of *set commands

*set fullname title
*set fullname &" "
*set fullname &firstname
*set fullname &" "
*set fullname &lastname

Hope it helps

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5

It did help! Thank you very much

6

It’s my pleasure

7

ChoiceScript parser is limited. Each operation must be its own expression, which means that they must be surrounded by paranthesis. That’s why @Ferddai’s way worked.

Another way of achieving the same result is by using string interpolation. If you’re concatenating many strings, it might be easier to read.

*set fullname "${title} ${firstname} ${lastname}"

The ${} syntax will replace the internal expression by its value at runtime.

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