How to prevent duplicate entries

[Xer0botXer0]

Hi guys,

so basically I was trying to prevent duplicate entries when receiving data from the server,
well it's still not working grr..

case 15: ///Receive other player Instance information
   
    //first check that this player data is not already client side
    var get_usn = buffer_read(buffer,buffer_string)
   
    for (qu =0; qu < 10; qu ++)
    {
        if global.arr_other_player_information[qu,0] != get_usn
        {
            inc_qu = inc_qu + 1
        }
    }
   
    if inc_qu >= 9 //player data doesnt already exist
    {
   
        for (qa =0; qa < 10; qa ++) 
        {
            if global.arr_other_player_information[qa,0] == "" //if slot is empty
            {
                ///Populate other player slot with other player information
                global.arr_other_player_information[qa,0] = get_usn //username
                global.arr_other_player_information[qa,1] = -1 //Instance id (use to store instance id upon creation, to use after)
                global.arr_other_player_information[qa,2] = buffer_read(buffer,buffer_u8) //room x
                global.arr_other_player_information[qa,3] = buffer_read(buffer,buffer_u8) //room y
                global.arr_other_player_information[qa,4] = buffer_read(buffer,buffer_u16) //x pos
                global.arr_other_player_information[qa,5] = buffer_read(buffer,buffer_u16) //y pos
                qa = 11 //end
                inc_qu = 0;
            }
        }
     }  
     
   
    break;

any ideas ? i thought this would work.

 

[Roa]

Hi guys,

so basically I was trying to prevent duplicate entries when receiving data from the server,
it was pretty silly but I figured it out, this required an extra for loop and an integer that increases till the end of the loop, if at the end no duplicates were found(compared two values) then add the new entry after a few other filters.

Maybe try a ds_list??