How to use smart localization?

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Hi there
I have simple player inventory model with list of items, like List<InventoryItem> _items;
And I have UI Text (TMP) with Localize String Event & assigned string reference on it (text like “Items: {items}”)
When player pressing button (for example Tab) the Text show up, so my question is: how to pass param {items} to this text which means _items.Count considering that the number of items in the inventory may change?

I’ve tried to use

text.Arguments = new object[]
{
    _items.Count
};
text.RefreshString();

and

text.Add("items", new IntVariable { Value = _items.Count });

but getting error FormattingException: Error parsing format string: Could not evaluate the selector "items" at 11

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@karljj1 I saw you are providing answers about localization, could you provide one for my question please?

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Smart format wont know what “items” is here. It will only have an integer at index 0.
So you would acces the value with items: {0}

If you want to access it with “items” you would need to pass something in that has a field called “items”.
For example:

text.Arguments = new object[]
{
    _items.Count
};

However this would need items: {_items}

You could also use an anonymous type to set the name:

text.Arguments = new object[]
{
    new { items = _items.Count }
};
4

I realized my mistake
I’ve tried to set items argument value for LocalizedString.Arguments, but it was needed for LocalizeStringEvent.StringReference.Arguments