Question

So I’ve been racking my brain trying to figure out how to implement a “talk” function in my game. I’m new to C# programming but I’ve been doing as much reading and experimenting as I can with the language.

This is what I have so far:

Comm comm = new Comm();
string message = null;
if (InputBox.Text == "say " + message)
            {
                OutputBox.AppendText(comm.do_say(message));
            }

class Comm
{
    public string do_say(string message)
    {
        return "You say: " + message + "\n";
    }
}

Now, this doesn’t work. I think I know why, but I can’t seem to figure out just how to redo it so it does work… I’ve tried to replace:

(InputBox.Text == "say " + message)

with

(InputBox.Text == "say {0}", message)

and it doesn’t work either. So, now I’m out of ideas on how to make this work. I tried searching stackoverflow and google for answers but came up with nothing.

Any help or hints on how to fix it would be great!

Thanks.

Answer 1

You don’t know what the message is in advance, right? You need to search for the “Say “, and take the rest of the string as input.

if(InputBox.Text.StartsWith("Say ")) 
    OutputBox.Text += InputBox.Text.SubString(4);

SubString(4) will return whatever’s after the first 4 characters in the string, everything after the "Say "