Trying to make a string lowercase using *script [SOLVED, can't use *script in CSIDE]

Game Development
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Got a bit of a technical question. I have a string variable that I want to make completely lowercase. There’s an old thread for this question involving the *script command, but I can’t seem to get the solution working. In fact, I can’t seem to get the *script command working at all.

My first attempt looked roughly like this:

*temp var1 “AAAAAA”

*temp var2 var1

*script temps.var2 = temps.var2.toLowerCase()

${var2}

The output to this would be:

AAAAAA

when the expected output is:

aaaaaa

And then I tried to simplify things and just tried to set var2 to any kind of string.

*temp var1 “AAAAAA”

*temp var2 var1

*script temps.var2 = “aaaaaa”

${var2}

Same results. No errors, but not what I was expecting. Am I missing something? Or has ChoiceScript changed since that thread five years ago?

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What exactly are you trying to do? Because you can set a string as lowercase already and without the use of *script

*create var1 “hello”

${var1}

Would show as hello.

Likewise $!{var1}

Would show as Hello.

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The ! capitalize the first letter, but otherwise the string remains the same.

The *script command is desabled in CSIDE. I don’t know if you’re using it. This could the reason.

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I don’t have the answer to the specific question, however, can’t you define the variable in lowercase? Because it’s easy to capitalize the entire content of a string variable on demand. You just need two exclamation marks.

*temp var1 "aaa"
$!!{var1}

the output would be AAA

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Yeah that’s right but the point is a string can be set as lowercase so I’m not sure what the topic creator is actually after.

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That could be useful for user input. I’ve wondered how to turn to lower case myself.

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when using strings you can automatically set it as lowercase.

*set weapon “sword”

should print it as lowercase

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I was using CSIDE. It worked perfectly once I ran it in browser. Very interesting, thank you.

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