Make a Lua callback that returns and splits a text file into separate list (table) items

[BombasticTom]

What feature do you want to get added on the base engine?

READ BEFORE YOU SAY DO IT WITH LUA, I TRIED. IF I DIDN'T TRY I WOULDN'T HAVE OPENED THIS ISSUE!

so I tried combining the new getTextFromFile callback with a custom function to split the text lines into multiple list items it did work, but for some reason, the game would just crash.

Necessary code I wrote you'll need to know:

function mysplit (inputstr, sep)
    if sep == nil then
            sep = "%s"
    end
    local t={}
    for str in string.gmatch(inputstr, "([^"..sep.."]+)") do
            table.insert(t, str)
    end
    return t
end

function onCreate()

        --local noteskins = {}
        noteskins = mysplit(getTextFromFile('./data/Saves/skins.txt') , '\n')

        options = {
            {'Player Noteskin', 'pnoteskin', 'string', 'Vanilla', noteskins},
            {'Opponent Noteskin', 'onoteskin', 'string', 'Vanilla', noteskins},
            {'Choose your Character', 'bfchar', 'string', 'BF', {'BF', 'Pico-Player', 'Eduardo'}},
            {'well well well', 'eduardo', 'bool'}
            --{'hitsound', 'bool', {'true', 'false'}, 'false'}, Do we need this anymore lmao?
        }

Since this plan didn't work, I would suggest to you to either fix the bug (or help me if it's not working because of me since I'm an idiot), or to make a new callback that separates list rows

(btw I know this code doesn't have end, that's because it's not the full code)

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[cyn0x8]

the code looks right; either the game is crashing from the table or from getTextFromFile

[BombasticTom]

it's the table then i'll try and fix it then

[BombasticTom]

idk i think I'm doing something wrong (placeholder is just a normal nave I gave) the upper text is the splitted txt file It just doesn't work with the noteskins table for some reason

[BombasticTom]

i know how to fix it

[BombasticTom]

fixed :D

function mysplit(inputstr, sep)
    if sep == nil then
            sep = "%s"
    end
    local t={}
    for str in string.gmatch(inputstr, "([^"..sep.."]+)") do
            table.insert(t, str)
    end
    return t
end

function onCreate()

        --noteskins = {
            --'Vanilla', 'DDR', 'Doki Doki Plus', 'Circles'
        --}

        noteskins = mysplit(getTextFromFile('./data/Saves/skins.txt'), '\n')

        options = {
            {'Player Noteskin', 'pnoteskin', 'string', noteskins[1], noteskins},
            {'Opponent Noteskin', 'onoteskin', 'string', noteskins[1], noteskins},
            {'Choose your Character', 'bfchar', 'string', 'BF', {'BF', 'Pico-Player', 'Eduardo'}},
            {'well well well', 'eduardo', 'bool'}
            --{'hitsound', 'bool', {'true', 'false'}, 'false'}, Do we need this anymore lmao?
        }

fixed code

[yeeterongithub]

@BombasticTom can you share the code (full code) cuz i wanna use these types of options

[BombasticTom]

https://gamebanana.com/mods/358754