Removing a Character Name

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Nov 21 2010, 3:20 pm
How would you remove a user's character name from a global list if the user isn't the same name as their character at the login screen?
Nov 21 2010, 3:45 pm
This is sort of confusing with the way in which you typed it...can you give some sort of shoddy example such as:

-player makes name
-name added to list
-player changes name

in a similar format?
Nov 21 2010, 4:06 pm
In response to OrangeWeapons
I'll try, hopefully this isn't too confusing, maybe I'm just over thinking things.

-The player goes to a login screen as a mob type /mob/login
-The player's name is his key at this point
-The player clicks new to make new character
-The player names their new character (the name is added to a global list which is saved/loaded on world/New() and Del()) and their mob type is switched to this character which is a /mob/character type.
-When the player exits the game their character is saved in client/Del().

Now let's say a player was to delete their character how would I remove that character's name from the global list?
Nov 21 2010, 7:13 pm
In response to Onolt
Find the savefile attached to their key and take the character name from that.
Nov 21 2010, 7:45 pm
In response to Warlord Fred
Is there a way to call out the file and its data without loading the character?
Nov 22 2010, 7:51 am
In response to Onolt
Put the data into a temporary variable.
Nov 22 2010, 9:30 am
In response to Warlord Fred
Like this?

var/list/nameList = new
var/savefile/F = new("Save.sav")
var/characterName

F["name"] >> characterName
nameList.Remove(characterName)
Nov 22 2010, 11:17 am
In response to Onolt
Exactly.
Nov 22 2010, 11:28 am
In response to Warlord Fred
When I try to print out the name to the user nothing shows up. Do you have to change the Write() and Read() procs to explicitly load and save the name?

    proc/CharDel()
        var/firstletter=copytext(src.ckey, 1, 2)
        var/characterName
        if(fexists("Saves/[firstletter]/[ckey].sav"))   //If the file exists
            var/savefile/F = new("Saves/[firstletter]/[ckey].sav")
            F["name"] >> characterName
            fdel("Saves/[firstletter]/[ckey].sav")  //Then delete it
            alert("Your savefile has been deleted!")
            src << "[characterName]"
Nov 22 2010, 12:13 pm
In response to Onolt
The name should not be stored in F["name"]. Depending on how you store the character, it may be in F[".0/name"] or F["mob/.0/name"]. The easiest thing is to use ExportText() to view the savefile as text to see where the name is stored.
Nov 22 2010, 2:09 pm
In response to Garthor
Thank you, It was saved under F[/mob/.0/name"]. Thank you everyone for all your help!