Variables with the same name but different types

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So, I am a little unclear on something.
To make some things, such as calling orientation or height or what not with fairly long, at least for variables, titles, I have, for example.

*set mc_height "very tall"
*set mc_height0

Will that work, or do I have put a different variable, because they are both MC_height? Also, I think I ran into something like this where I did that and because it changed the variable from a “” to a number, when I typed in the *if (quoted variable name), it didn’t trigger because it wasn’t that variable anymore.

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Fairly certain you have to designate each individual variable as a string, boolean, or number. You cannot make the same variable exist in different types.

You’d have to do something like
*create height_describe ""

And then

*if mc_height > 1000
   *set height_describe "very tall"

and so forth.

I’m not 100% sure what this means, but possibly has to do with the fact that a numeral can exist both as a number variable and as a string. In other words, you can store 6 as a numeral and “6” as a string. But I’m not quite sure if that was what you are referring to.

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Thanks, I thought it was something like that. I think what happened with my example was that it was a string, and then I accidentally sent it to a number, so then the string no longer existed and the game had nothing to trigger since it was set up with the assumption that the strings still existed.

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Arrays might also be useful in this case. It allows you to do things like this, which seems to be what you’re trying.

*set mc_height "very tall"
*set mc_measure 6
*set feature "measure"
Your character is ${mc["height"]}, standing at ${mc[feature]} feet.
// Your character is very tall, standing at 6 feet.

It would probably help in some measure to keep variables separated, especially when they refer to the same thing?

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