String and class name problem

[NewtSoup]

why doesn't this work?

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$station.class= $station ->get object class
$isShipyard = find position of pattern 'Shipyard' in $station.class

the snippet always returns -1 even when get object class returns "Big Shipyard"

[Joubarbe]

get object class does not return a string, so you cannot do that.

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do if $station.class == [Big Shipyard]
  $isShipyard = [TRUE]

[NewtSoup]

Thank you, I thought that was probably it - I just couldn't work out how to get around it.

Thanks again.

[Cycrow]

of course, you can convert any data type into a string if you wish to use string functions

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$station.class.string = sprintf: fmt='%s', $station.class

However, if you goal is to check if a station is a shipyard, then you can use,
$station -> is of class [Shipyard]

as classes are a hierarchy, so both Big and Small shipyards are also shipyard classes.

the get object class only returns the top level class, whereas the is of class function checks the whole hierarchy