Evening all,

I'm trying to search through a string array to search for various index records and/or names but want to

do this using a partial search.

I have a text box input show up and I want the player to be able to type in a name, then have that string

search through the array , which then would either, a) if only one index contains the string in which the user typed, display xx information.

if more than one index contains the string, then pop up a list and display the full string names.. at which point the user would click on whichever and something happens etc...

it's still a work in progress.. but you get the idea.. i just need to take the input from the user and have it search through.

the only thing i found on array searching is using find or rfind,, but that seems to want exact strings. I need a sort of wild card or an include type function.

Well, I eagerly await some replies and could use some help on this please.

Thanks,

T-Mush-S

P.S. It's for my mod which I'm in the process of updating. It works great as is, and uses the MCM for pretty much most of the functionality, but I wanted to extend it further by adding a search query to it. The indexes / arrays etc.. are done and I'm currently using SkyUILib for the textinput popup. That all works great, and the strings get read directly from the player inputs, but as it is, I can't figure a way to search through them unless the player knows exactly how to spell an NPC's name, or rather what the game believes the name is.

As an potential alternative would it be possible to use a dummy container filled with tokens representing your strings? You mentioned you already have a SkyUI requirement so you could use SkyUI's inventory filter to search your "strings".

That's a good idea. I can play around with that too. At most I would have is 81 objects/strings anyhow so the inventory walking shouldn't be that slow. I just like arrays because they're pretty much instant. Also, when using containers; does the index of the item change if adding or subtracting. My mod relies on all index to be static once placed. the index coincides with where they are in the quest's reference aliases as well as the objectives as well as several other arrays.

eg. index 1 in my reference alias would be say: Sofia

index 1 in my objective would contain sofia's name

index 1 in my NPCStatsArray would grab sofia's info as a string and store the fact that she's a child.

and this goes on...

so say i have 10 npc's and they're assigned 1 through 10, then i remove number 4.. well all array's and references in 4 will be set to none..

but all the others don't shift.. they're still assigned to their respected indexes.

etc. etc.. so all my array's match 1 for 1. if using a container.. i thought they shifted indexes depending on how many are in said container. I can check to see.

so if i were to search for "sof" and her container put her at 4 instead of 1, then my returns would be off and the info would show for whichever is in my index 4 arrays. I hope that makes sense.

of course i could be way off the mark here and if that's the case then all of my rambling here is moot.

FOUND IT!... after a lot of reading, and searching.. turns out SKSE has a find function for it's own.. which does include wild card searches

http://www.creationkit.com/index.php?title=Find_-_StringUtil

there's the link if anyone else may need it.