Are there any possibilities to generate a string name as in example:
Code:

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string Question1 = "Some text1";
string Question2 = "Some text2";
string Question3 = "Some text3";

var i=1;
text question1Txt
{ strings = 1;	
  string  = "Question"+i;   //return "Some text1"
}
i=2;
text question2Txt
{ strings = 1;	
  string  = "Question"+i;   //return "Some text2"
}

---

What do you want to do with the texts in the end?

Do you want to display a number of questions,
such that the engine fills in a questionstring into one
of the 3 texts?

For a quiz game?

I want to show the content of Question+i string in my programm.
I have many questions and i must select 2 from they. var i will be generated per random 2 times and corresponding questions will be shown.
For example:
Code:

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string Question1 = "Some text 1";
...
string Question10 = "Some another text 10";

var i = int(random (10)); // for example return 5
draw_text("Question" + i,100,10,vector(100,100,255)); 
var j = int(random (10));  // for example return 10
draw_text("Question" + j,100,10,vector(100,100,255));

---

// as result i want to see:
Some text 5
Some another text 10

My question is how can i call the right string in draw_text or in text{ string=....} block?

Here is a little simple script, that
will display a random question out of
a list of questions when pressing space.
Could be optimized using pointer arrays.
But I hope you will get the basic point behind it.





font ArialFont = "Arial", 1, 14;

Text Qustion_display
{
font = ArialFont;
layer = 3;
pos_x = 10;
pos_y = 10;
offset_y = 0;
strings = 1;
flags = visible;
}




string question_0="Are you smart?";
string question_1="Do you want to....?";
string question_2="11111";
string question_3="22222";
string question_4="33333";
string question_5="blabla";


string* the_question;
function select_question(number)
{

if(number==0){the_question=question_0;}
if(number==1){the_question=question_1;}
if(number==2){the_question=question_2;}
if(number==3){the_question=question_3;}
if(number==4){the_question=question_4;}
if(number==5){the_question=question_5;}


}


function display_question
{
select_question(int(random(6))); //chooses a random question between 0 and 5
Qustion_display.string[0]=the_question; //write the questionstring into the textpanel

}



on_space display_question();

Here's another idea...

Code:

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string the_question;
string tStr;
function select_question(number)
{
    str_for_num(tStr, number);
    str_cpy(the_question, "str_cpy(tStr, question_");
    str_cat(the_question, tStr);
    str_cat(the_question, ");");
    execute(the_question);
    str_cpy(the_question, tStr);
}

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This will work with any number of strings, without using a ton of "if" statements.

Thanks a lot, xXxGuitar511, it was what I had been looking for and it works!
There is only one correction:
str_for_num (tStr, num);
in place of
str_for_number(tStr, num);

ah, thanks for the correction...