Removing all after space in string

[PaperClipMan]

I'm trying to figure out how to take a string and delete all characters after a space. The problem is, I don't know how many characters in the string the first space will be and all of the string commands I've found work on character placement arguments.

ie:
var1 = "ratta tat tat"
command removes everything after the spaces
output = "ratta"

How can I do this?

[maras]

string_replace(yourString, " ", ""); // you will replace space ( " " ) with nothing ( "" )

[PaperClipMan]

Originally posted by marasovec:

string_replace(yourString, " ", ""); // you will replace space ( " " ) with nothing ( "" )

Only replaces the space itself

[PaperClipMan]

Originally posted by marasovec:

Then its string_replace_all

That just removes all of the spaces

https://docs.yoyogames.com/source/dadiospice/002_reference/strings/string_replace_all.html

[maras]

Oh Im sorry. I think I didnt read it all. I have something like that in my older game I'll try to find it

[maras]

var string_ = "";

for ( var i = 0; i < string_length(str1)); i++)
{
var st = string_char_at(str1, i);
if st = " "
{
str1 = string_;
break;
}
else string_ += st;
}

[maras]

Its adding characters until first space appears. Then replace the original string and breaks

[Zappy]

You can use string_pos(substr,str) to find the location of the first instance of substr within str. Then you can delete everything from that character and onwards. Tested example:

//blah is the string variable, temp is the character position of the first space in blah
var temp=string_pos(" ",blah); //Set temp to the first space in blah
if temp!=0 //If a space is found...
    blah=string_delete(blah,temp,string_length(blah)-temp+1); //...delete the space and everything afterwards

Edit: I've changed if string_pos(" ",blah)!=0 to if temp!=0 as temp is already the result of that function. I've also changed a custom_string_var to blah, as I originally had it as the former, then changed all but one occurence of it to the latter, forgetting the last one at the time. I've also added a +1 to the length of string_delete, and changed "untested example" to "tested example".

[maras]

Originally posted by Zappy:

You can use string_pos(substr,str) to find the location of the first instance of substr within str. Then you can delete everything from that character and onwards. Untested example:

//blah is the string variable, temp is the character position of the first space in blah
var temp=string_pos(" ",blah); //Set temp to the first space in blah
if string_pos(" ",blah)!=0 //If a space is found...
    blah=string_delete(custom_string_var,temp,string_length(blah)-temp); //...delete the space and everything afterwards

Yeah this is probably a better way

[PaperClipMan]

Originally posted by Zappy:

You can use string_pos(substr,str) to find the location of the first instance of substr within str. Then you can delete everything from that character and onwards. Untested example:

//blah is the string variable, temp is the character position of the first space in blah
var temp=string_pos(" ",blah); //Set temp to the first space in blah
if string_pos(" ",blah)!=0 //If a space is found...
    blah=string_delete(custom_string_var,temp,string_length(blah)-temp); //...delete the space and everything afterwards

thanks, works great now, but an 'n' is added to my example output. this is what I used:

var temp = string_pos(" ",user); //Set temp to the first space in user

if string_pos(" ",user)!= 0 {     //If a space is found, delete the space and everything afterwards

    global.user = string_delete(user,temp,string_length(user)-temp); 
}
else global.usersys = user; 

I couldn't figure out why, so I wanted to ask why this would be before I messed with it.

[Zappy]

Originally posted by _Sliding:

thanks, works great now, but an 'n' is added to my example output. -

This means that the example input had a space somewhere and had an "n" at the end. If you had used a "t" at the end, it would be a "t" instead.


First, change if string_pos(" ",user)!= 0 to if temp!= 0.
This has nothing to do with the error, temp just already stores that function's result, so this is probably faster/more efficient/more optimized.

Then, change string_length(user)-temp to string_length(user)-temp+1.
This is the actual cause of the error. It was one character too short. Good thing I included "untested" when I said "untested example".

(I have now edited my previous comment to reflect both of these things.)


Also, just to make sure, is it intentional that you're affecting global.user if there is a space in the string, but global.usersys if there isn't?
And is there a particular reason that you are using curly brackets ( { } ) around the if case's thing but not the else case's thing, when in both cases only one thing is done as a result?

[PaperClipMan]

Ah. Thanks.

Originally posted by Zappy:

Also, just to make sure, is it intentional that you're affecting global.user if there is a space in the string, but global.usersys if there isn't?
And is there a particular reason that you are using curly brackets ( { } ) around the if case's thing but not the else case's thing, when in both cases only one thing is done as a result?

Global.user does not exist, that was my mistake when I edited the code to post. As for the curley brackets.. that’s just an odd habit ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thanks for pointing it out though