I was messing this morning since I have been playing alot lately with the cuttext command and figured this might snippet might solve the issue. If by chance the number has no decimal it will skip and setvar for you. I think this is what your asking.

Thanks Toyman, that's another way to do it. When I did it in my script I used replaceText and getWord, like this small code snippet example :



This replaces the . with a space, and then get's the first word which is the number you want. Haven't tested it to see how it reacts to not finding the . and a zero in the text, but it should be fine since I don't use this code in a script if I haven't setPrecision, and if I set precision then all numbers should have a . and zero or other number in the decimal place.

Yea or I guess could just use striptext $var "."

Lot's of options, just finding one that works for you

Very true Toyman.

Edit : Oh, I don't think you would want to use stripText. It would strip out the period without replacing it with a space, so I think that would still leave your number that was in the decimal place wouldn't it? Which would make your number like 2700 instead of 270.0 or like 2354 instead of 235.4 or whatever. Haven't tested it, just a guess there. I think that was why I went with replaceText and getWord in my code instead of going with stripText.

Yes, just ran a simple test script, and if you used stripText it would just remove the decimal point and concatenate (if that is the programming term) the numbers in the decimal places to the whole number in front.



Script output from the test game :

Not if you do it this way, sometimes adding and subtracting to the $pos variable can cause flaky results, so just grabbing the "250." then stripping the "." is usually a more stable solution.

NOTE: I added the if statement just in the case you get a number with no ".", it's a safety to keep script from misfiring and you ending in a pod




Using yours...slightly modded.

Result:
257. This is the number, with decimal places
257 This is the number after stripText

Cool Toyman, taught this old dog a new trick I hadn't even thought of. Very nice.

So now, that's what 3 different ways we've worked out to do the same thing. I'll leave it to you and the other more experienced and skilled scripters out there to decide which would be best to use, I believe that's a bit beyond my rusty never were too good skills lol.