Splice Function

[sincla]

Sorry for all these questions, I'm only asking about things that I can't find on the wiki.

What does the splice function do and what are the parameters passed into it?

splice(x,y,z), what are x, y, and z?

Thanks.

 

[ShadowChemosh]

So normally Splice() is used in languages like JavaScript to splice apart a long string (ie URL) into tokens by a specific value. So for a URL you normally slice it apart by its "/" to get each piece as a token. Anyways it appears that HL splice does the exact opposite.

So splice() here puts strings together by a specific value.

      ~append any special details for this weapon
      special = splice(special,field[wpSpecial].text,", ")

So above would put the existing text in "special" together with the text in field[wpSpecial].text adding ", " in between.

So if Special had "shadow" and field[wpSpecial].text had "chemosh" then special at the end would have "shadow, chemosh" in it.

 

[sincla]

Thanks. Yeah that's kind of an odd use of the word splice. I guess what's being "spliced" is the middle character between two strings.