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[Risugami]

erm...it checks to see if the substring is "-gold " plus, if the last one was counted....you couldn't select just one character o.o
SubString("wheee",0,1)="w"
SubStringBJ("wheee",1,1)="w"
the bj just subtracts one from the 2nd argument so they are essentially equivalent

You made me confused. BJ means Blizzard JASS, it makes things easier. So I prefer to use SubString instead of SubStringBJ. Like what Nuuby said, SubString is a native. And also, natives are more efficient than BJs.

On the little tutorial I posted earlier, I meant in GUI. The way strings work in GUI. Because GUI is made to be easy. And JASS has no reason to be made easy. I didn't meant about SubStringBJ and SubString. If you do not know. GUI uses BJs, and BJs are made to make things easier. I know it sounds confusing. Just saying, GUI is different from JASS.

GUI = 1st character = 1
JASS = 1st character = 0

It's the same what you said in SubStringBJ. It -1 the 2nd argument. And in GUI. It uses SubStringBJ, that's why the first character is "1" in GUI.

So should we have a guide on all commonly used natives or are some just hard to understand. Or at least those used in the common cheat packs around here.

You can try. It'll take a lot time and work though.

[naturesfury]

o.o ur missing my point.....ik all that......but
im talking about the last argument, the end number SubString(string,start,THIS!!! end)
im saying that that character isnt counted
so its hello not hellot in the example i gave a few posts back

dont even know why i included the bj =/ but whatever...

[Risugami]

Oh well as far as I know it will select hellot. But it will select hello in GUI.

This thread got way to spammy lol. I mean, the thread starter disappeared.

[Apple]

This thread is not for you to debate and changing subjects ^^

[Risugami]

I didnt, what are you talking about? It's still about SubString and strings, still on topic. Not trying to be rude but. You just disappeared, and wondered lol. Anyways, the thread got spammy. Just sayin. What's wrong with that?

[haxorico]

Bump from a month back.

I just happened to step on this thread and rad it all. And I just really have to point out several stuff.

1)
SubString(s2s,0,6)=="-gold "
The example above is not counting the next character. Lets go to your example-tutorial and Ill explain why.
- g o l d <space>
0 1 2 3 5 6
That is exacly that. If it would have counted the next character. Lets say I used: "-gold 10" you were saying that "SubString(s2s,0,6)=="-gold "" is a false statemant. as it is NOT equals to "-gold " it is equal to "-gold 1" and thus the command wouldn't work. So I just wanted to clear this out.

2) SubString vs SubStringBJ
As you said, in GUI the counting starts from 1, it is just more logical to people who don't understand it so good. Same is happening with player number. in the GUI it shows player red as player 1, while in jass it is player 0. People who never coded before see it as a more logical thinking (check the first page for proof, you had to explain it starts from 0) - It is just to make things easier.
Now lets review what we do with SubStringBJ.

After writing our code using the GUI. The code is converted into jass.
Now you said (for example) to get the first 2 letters from a string, in the GUI converted it to SubStringBJ(string,1,2)
which turns to the following native
SubString(string,1-1,2)
So 1-1 = 0. We got the same result in both our cases (YAY!)

3) GUI is NOT different from JASS. Blizzard don't expect all map-makers to be coders. There is a big difference. So what they did is the GUI system. You tell the map what you want to do. And it converts itself to a code. GUI is not a language, its in interface (Graphical User Interface)
So don't compare the 2.