Forums Scripts & Popups Help with a variable

I've been working on a !lotto game for my bot lately, and I've run into a roadblock in getting it to recognize people's guesses. I've been using the $addtok function to add everyone's guesses to a single variable, but it seems that using this method, I can't add the same number more than once to the variable. It handles different numbers just fine, however. It wouldn't be very fair to award just a single winner if multiple people guess the number correctly. What methods could I use to set this up so that multiple people can guess the number?

...There is a lot more to the code, but I'm reluctant to share it right now. I'm just asking for advice, I'm not asking to have my code rewritten and handed back to me.

This is the method that $addtok uses, and is described in the help file.

I'm going to presume that you want to keep each person't guesses associated with that person's nick.

You can do this in a number of ways, but the top two I would recommend are using compound variables using the nick as part of the variable name, or using a hash table.

The more people you get, the more I would lean towards the hash table method.

Good luck, and if you want/need more assistance, please be sure to tell us what method you decide to use.

FYI: other methods include using a file (ini or text).

At most, there would be 15 people playing, usually around 4-6 or so. What would you recommend for that? Also, is there another name for compound variables? I searched the help file for them, but came up with nothing.

Then don't use $addtok.
If you want the variable to be space separated use :

The help file refers to them as dynamic variables.

This works out perfectly, thanks much!