Is there a string-friendly version of "tagnames"?

[TheIronGolem]

I have an ability that needs to loop through a series of custom dynamic tag groups I've made, and append each tagname it finds in each group to a string.

Basically, the groups look like this:

<group id="custgroup1" name="Custom Group 1" dynamic="yes"></group>
<group id="custgroup2" name="Custom Group 2" dynamic="yes"></group>
<group id="custgroup3" name="Custom Group 3" dynamic="yes"></group>
etc...

Then I'm dynamically adding tags to the ability with names, like "custgroup1.foo", "custgroup1.bar", "custgroup2.baz", etc, with names of "Foo", "Bar", and "Baz" respectively.

And I'd like to turn that into a string that looks like "Foo, Bar, Baz"

I figured I could do it like this:

var myStr as string
var i as number
for i = 1 to 3
  myStr &= tagnamestr["custgroup" & i & ".?"], ", "]
next

But it turns out I was wrong to assume that there's a "tagnamestr" method. And I couldn't find any reference to one in the wiki. Is there a way to get tagnames according to a string (like tagidstr, but returning names instead of ids)? Or (as I suspect) do I need to give up on the loop and just do each group manually?

 

[Aaron]

Couldn't you just use a splice for each tag group?

var myStr as string
myStr = splice(myStr, tagnames[custgroup1.?, " or "], " and ")
myStr = splice(myStr, tagnames[custgroup2.?, " or "], " and ")

 

[ShadowChemosh]

He is trying to not have to hard-code the tag group why he was trying to use a soft-coded approach.

Basically I don't see anyway around it myself so you need to do what Aaron said or basically hard-code the tag groups into the script.

 

[TheIronGolem]

Yeah, I went ahead and did it the hardcoded way shortly after posting the thread. I had hoped that if I took the trouble to do it the hard way, then someone would immediately show me a better way that made all the work I had done unnecessary. So much for my attempt to harness irony...

Still, it's nice to know about that splice function. That isn't in the wiki, so at least I did learn something new.