Indexes, Lists and Number to Text Relations in GKC

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WARNING: This Guide Goes Very In Depth
Read at your own risk :skull:

Using a property containing data, I can write something along these lines:
1\Content2\Some More Content3\Even More Content4\

The numbers and slashes are called separators. The numbers in the separators are called indexes and I use \ instead of / because they are less common. This can be used as lists, and more importantly, Number to Text Relations.

Number to Text Relations are ways to interpret values using a number. These numbers could be used to simply relate number 1 to mario, 2 to kirby or 3 to bowser, so instead of using blockcode for to make the value of the character I want to select with:

set property Character to Mario

set property Character to Kirby

set property Character to Bowser

I could use:

Block Code

Now, a counter could be used to update the Selection Number and that number could be used to match the relation meaning only using one block I can create a character selection menu that would usually take X blocks to make where X is the amount of characters you want the player to select from plus one. Now, if I wanted to use a limited trigger loop and a counter, I could use a button to trigger the trigger and select the character, and I could store the data in a property.

So, if I have a property with:

1\Mario2\Kirby3\Bowser4\

And then match a number with the character, I would get the character that the number relates to.

Lists

I can also use this method for lists. Let’s say I’m using Pokémon for this example. The list could store a player’s Pokémon like this::

1\Pichu2\Charizard3\Squirtle4\

And by using a popup, I can display a player’s Pokémon.

I can even put lists into lists like this where x\ is the Pokémon separator and y] are the stats of that Pokémon:

1\1]Pichu2]Electric3]Unevolved2\Charizard

That’s it, thanks for reading, and if you enjoyed this guide, be sure to leave a :heart:, :slight_smile:

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Holy that’s a lot of block code other than that really good guide!

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Block limit final boss :broken_heart:

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OML THIS IS ACTUALLY SO USEFUL.
I’m making a PC in gkc, and this is gonna help with the file directory and the MBR in sooo many ways.

:+1:
@Coolcaden26

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Additionally, if you can get the items in your list to have a fixed length, you don’t even need separators. For instance, a list of the coordinates (30, 9), (2, 3), (11, 42) could be put in a string as “300902031142”. You can then access each of the numbers in the list using the substring block and some simple math.

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The string needs some seperators as 3009 could be read as 3,0 and 0,9

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You’d set it up so it’s read in chunks of two, so it would be read as (30, 09). For instance the following block will return the nth number in a list (assuming the list has only two or less digit numbers and one digit numbers have a zero in front of them).

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In @Apollo’s version you have to find the separators, which takes a lot of code. In my version, there’s an implied separator between every two numbers. Does this clarify things?

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