Displaying a variable's name when set as another variable

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Hi all, I’m having trouble printing a variable that I set as another variable. Here’s an example:

*set Speed 25
*set difficultycheck Speed

I need to find a way to use the “difficultycheck” variable to display the value for speed (25) and also the word Speed.

It’s for a large gosub routine with multiple stats so I can’t just print the word. I can use a ton of if statements but that’s messy.

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Hmmm, you could use multireplace?

For example, say for a Speed increase, you set difficulty check to 1, Strength increase, set it to 2, Dexterity increase, set it to 3, and then the following should print out {whatever was increased}: {value}. and you can just add more stats on.

@{difficultycheck Speed: ${speed}|Strength: ${strength}|{Dexterity: ${dexterity}}

Its still… an if in a way, but its more concise?

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The problem with that method is I’m going to have different difficulties to the same stat all the time, I plan to use this subclass hundreds of times and hope to only have to set 2 variables. I can set 3 if need be but was wondering if there was a solution to my plan to do it with 2

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To access a value by reference use curly braces.

This will print Speed.

${difficultycheck}

And this will print the value 25. (Notice the extra pair of curly braces.)

${{difficultycheck}}

You can use it in expressions as well.

*set myVar (42 + {difficultycheck})
*set {difficultycheck} %+5
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If that works out then that’s exactly what I needed, thank you!

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Hmm I’m actually hitting an issue, in that example both ${difficultycheck} and ${{difficultycheck}} are returning with 25. I can’t figure out how to get it to function as Speed instead.

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Okay! I found an issue and found the solution. So both ${diffucltycheck} and ${{difficultycheck}} were returning 25 instead of Speed, and that’s because of how I set it, it was never a string. I used:

*set Speed 25
*set difficultycheck Speed

What I need to do instead is:

*set Speed 25
*set difficultycheck “Speed”

Hope this helps anyone in the future!

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