Building tycoon game, need help storing variables into an array.

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Hi guys, sorry if this has been asked I've been googling it the last few days and haven't exactly been able to find anything useful to help.

So, I'm building a tycoon game, still new to unity but progressing well but I've hit a road block.

Basically i need an array that i can constantly add strings to the last index of the array(etc so there's something at index 0 i want to add the next item to 1, then 2 etc) I do not know how big the array is. i can't quite figure this one out.

I tried using a list but got some weird results such as it keeping data from the last run in the editor. Example, i run the game in the editor input two strings to the list "test1", "test2" i stop the game and run it again in the editor and i add another "TEST" variable and it prints "test1", "test2" and "TEST".

If anybody has a better idea for storing a lot of string variables other then a list or array i would be thankful.

TLDR; I need something i can add strings into without knowing how many strings will be put into it.

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Answer by Socapex · Dec 28, 2016 at 10:26 PM

You want a List (which is a common container often called vector).

 using System.Collections;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using UnityEngine;
 using UnityEngine.Assertions;
 
 public class blee : MonoBehaviour
 {
     [NonSerialized] List<string> my_strings = new List<string>();
 
     void Start()
     {
         my_strings.Add("flaaflee");
         my_strings.Add("bleeblou");
         my_strings.Add("cheers m8");
 
         foreach (string x in my_strings) {
             Debug.Log(x);
         }
     }
 
 }

I just read the part about your serialization issues. If you make the list public, or use [SerializeField], data will be saved. This happens with most types you can use in unity. I added the [NonSerialized] attribute for you. This will prevent unity from saving the data.

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drutt7 · Dec 29, 2016 at 07:50 AM 0

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Awesome, thank you so much :)

Building tycoon game, need help storing variables into an array.

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