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Nov 23 2018, 10:09 pm
Alright, so I'm trying to make changes to modular computers for SS13, and I am trying to make it so that you can have multiple user accounts, and for that I have a UID and a username stored in F.Stored_Data, F being the actual file in the modular computer and stored data being the text within. Apon buying the thing from the laptop vendor I made it so that it does,
if(firstboot = 0)
            var/datum/computer_file/data/users = new/datum/computer_file/data()
            users.filename = "users"
            users.hidden = "true"
            users.stored_data = "root:0"

Problem is, if I want the code to read users.stored_data again when asking for a username and password I need it to be able to only read everything before the semicolon. any way I can do that?
Nov 23 2018, 10:32 pm
You could use copytext() and findtext() together.

copytext(some_text, 1, findtext(some_text, delimiter))
Nov 23 2018, 10:39 pm (Edited on Nov 23 2018, 10:52 pm)
And if I wanted to do,
     users.stored_data = "root:0/nadministraitor:1000"

I assume /n will print out a newline.

How do I check the input for both root and administrator.
Nov 23 2018, 11:40 pm
I assume /n will print out a newline.

I believe you want \n instead.

How do I check the input for both root and administrator.

Well... using the combination of procs I mentioned, an example:

var/information = "username:myusername;password:mypassword"
var/username = copytext(information, 1, findtext(information, ";"))
var/password = copytext(findtext(information, ";"))


I encourage personal experimentation with these procs, as well as checking out the reference for said procs.

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