I have a result script for a piece of dialogue, which involves removing stealth boys from the player's inventory.

The script looks something like this (with some displays to see what's going on):

float SCountprinttoconsole "aaa"set SCount to player.GetItemCount Stealthboyprinttoconsole "Count %f" SCountprinttoconsole "yyy"player.removeitem Stealthboy SCount

The result is:

aaa
yyy

In other words, no display of the SCount line, presumably because SCount is being set to some invalid value. No stealth boys are removed.

Am I completely misunderstanding how GetItemCount works? Is GetItemCount not allowed in a dialogue result script? Or is it just another bugged function?

Note that GetItemCount is working perfectly in the conditions for the dialogue entry.

Try a short variable, not a float.

Already thought of that one - same result I'm afraid!

It is, but variable declarations aren't- make a global like TempVar or something and use that instead.

Removed as the answer is above.

Thanks! A Quest variable worked fine. The odd thing is, you can declare a reference variable in those scripts. Oh for a bit of consistency!

I didn't think you could pass non-OBSE functions quest vars. Did it accept Removeitem MyItem MyQuest.Count?

In any case, you'll find it's perfectly consistent that results scripts (quest stage scripts, perk activate scripts, dialogue ones, package end etc.), those not attached to an in-game thing can't store variables. Quest/object/effect ones can.

Haha I totally missed that.

It is as they say - you cannot use variables that you define in a result script. You can code for them and it will compile, but it won't actually work. You have to stash the variable somewhere else, like in a quest script, and then call it explicitly (MyHappyQuest.CountStuff).

Yes, it's working exactly as I intended.

Some types of result script will allow you to use local "ref" variables, but other types of variable will never work when declared in result scripts.

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I will add that you can use variables (even declared in the result script) on terminals in a Menu Item Result Scripts with no problem.