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Latest revision as of 17:38, 2 March 2026

Code represents data consisting of commands and their parameters. It is defined in script by being wrapped in {/} brackets, and is precompiled by the game engine.

The contents of SQF and SQS files are Code.

Examples:

while { alive player } do { sleep 1; hintSilent format ["Health: %1/100", round ((1 - damage player) * 100)]; }; unit addEventHandler ["Killed", { systemChat format ["%1 is dead", name (_this select 0)]; }]; onMapSingleClick { systemChat format ["You clicked at %1", _pos]; };

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See Code vs. Strings for more information on code/string data typing.

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-'''Code''' represents data consisting of commands and their parameters. The contents of [[SQF Syntax|SQF]] and [[SQS Syntax|SQS]] files, for example are 'Code'.
+'''Code''' represents data consisting of commands and their parameters.
-In turn, it can also be the case that one of the scripting commands gets passed further scripting commands, e.g.
+It is defined in script by being wrapped in <sqf inline>{</sqf>/<sqf inline>}</sqf> brackets, and is precompiled by the game engine.
-<sqf inline>while { code } do { code }; unit addEventHandler ["EventHandlerType", { code }]; onMapSingleClick "Code"</sqf>.
-Code literals (or code '''blocks''') are usually represented by enclosing text into curly braces: <sqf inline>{</sqf> and <sqf inline>}</sqf>.
+The contents of [[SQF Syntax|SQF]] and [[SQS Syntax|SQS]] files are Code.
-Any such code is precompiled by the script engine. Sometimes it may become necessary to first read in certain commands as [[String]].
-In order to convert code from data type String into data type Code, the command [[compile]] can be used. See [[Code vs. Strings]] for more information on code data typing.
+Examples:
+<sqf>
+while { alive player } do { sleep 1; hintSilent format ["Health: %1/100", round ((1 - damage player) * 100)]; };
+unit addEventHandler ["Killed", { systemChat format ["%1 is dead", name (_this select 0)]; }];
+onMapSingleClick { systemChat format ["You clicked at %1", _pos]; };
+</sqf>
-== Examples ==
-<sqf>{ _x setDamage 1 } forEach ArrayToKill</sqf>
+{{Feature|informative|See [[Code vs. Strings]] for more information on code/string data typing.}}
-<sqf>
-private _codeToExecute = { hint "it works!" };
-private _codeStr = toString _codeToExecute;		// ' hint "it works!" '
-call _codeToExecute;		// identical to
-call compile _codeStr;
-</sqf>
 [[Category: Data Types]]