Modding question

[Assailer]

Is it possible to check whether a specific ship name contains a certain text?

I'd like to find all ships with name starting with [WING1].

Not familiar what kind of string operations X:RB implements...


Thanks!

[UniTrader]

with a workaround of abusing substitute_text yes, but thats the only supproted one. locating the position of a sub-string is sadly missing as i noticed lately.

[Assailer]

<substitute_text> only replaces matched texts with a specified one, not sure how to recognize patterns with this.

I need function to see whether a certain sub-string is contained in the original text which will be part of a condition/filter.

My exact use case is:
"Find all the player ships in zone with [WING2] in their names."
I'm thinking about wing management through naming the ships.


Could we request the addition of such atomic function?

[UniTrader]

well, as i said its a non-obvious workaround:

<substitute_text text="$check" source="$name">
<replace text="'[Wing1]'" with="''"/>
</substitute_text>
<do_if value="$check != $name"/>
..........




i would also need such functions for my Name Managment Script Project, but currently they are neither in ai/md nor in lua


EDIT: Corrected code (was on typing on originally)

[Assailer]

Thanks!

Hopefully it's not a big performance hit to analyze ~100 ships names.