Armsty can't handle first grade OFP?

[dmakatra]

This is a really n00bish question 'cause I've been working on this dialog for days but now I'm stuck with this small piece of code.

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_Number = ctrlText _ID
? _Number = 0 : exit
_Number = _Number - 1
ctrlsetText [_ID, format["%1", _number]]
What I am trying to do is basicly get the ctrltext from _ID, be sure it won't go negative, extract 1 and then show the new number. Fine. However, it shows up -1? So I checked it with a hint format line. Aparantley, it's this line:
? _Number = 0 : exit
that fucks up 'cause after that _number shows up 0? Before it shows up 3, as it should do. I mean, that's a very simple line!! I can't handle first grade OFP scripting?? WTF?

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[dmakatra]

Hmmm... Intresting, I commented the ? _number = 0 and an error message popped up. Aparantley, _number is a string. How do I turn a string into a variable?? Any ideas?

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[The_Mark]

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_Number = ctrlText _ID
? _Number = 0 : exit
_Number = _Number - 1
ctrlsetText [_ID, format["%1", _number]]

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? _Number = 0: exit
should be

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? _Number == 0: exit
If you have only one =, OFP defines _Number as 0..
You ask a condition with ==.

And yes, it is a very  simple line ;D

[dmakatra]

Agh! However, it still is a string and won't accept the line:

_Number = _Number - 1

as it spits it out, 'cause it expects a number, not a string. :-\

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[The_Mark]

Aparantley, _number is a string.

Damn. You got a point there. I recall seeing some kind of string-to-int function in the Ed Depot.

Or you could write your own script  ;D

[dmakatra]

Hooray! StringToNumber by SnYpir. Another file into the list. LCD's gonna go nuts for me taking up too much space. ;D

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