replacetext: statement has no effect

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ID:2288804

Aug 30 2017, 12:25 am

Laser50

Code:

if(findtext(C.alien_whitelist, race.name))
    replacetext("[C.alien_whitelist]", "[race.name]", "")

Problem description:
Dream Maker spits out a warning on the replacetext function, I believe I am using it correctly, yet it doesn't seem to be willing to work. replacetextEx also didn't.

I already tried to turn the arguments into strings, rather than vars (which are already strings) to see if it would make a difference, but I am unsure why it isn't doing what its supposed to be doing. Any help?

Aug 30 2017, 12:33 am
Kaiochao	replacetext() returns the resulting string. You're not using the return value at all. Passing a var to a proc only passes the value contained by the var, not the var itself. Maybe you wanted to do this instead? C.alien_whitelist = replacetext(C.alien_whitelist, race.name, "") I get the feeling you're using a single string as a list of strings instead of an actual list of strings...