Identifier Expected

Unity Engine
1

I have a script that checks if a word is in my array called dictionary when a user presses a submit button. My script works fine so far but the only error is in this chunk:

public bool Check (string){
		for(int i =0;i<=dictionary.length;i++){
			if (word==dictionary[i]){
				return true;
			}
			else{
				return false;
			}
		}
	}

This method is called when the user presses submit. The error says identifier expected. Any suggestions? I feel like this is going to be a really obvious answer and I am going to feel really stupid :wink:

2

People seem to avoid my threads…

3

This:

public bool Check (string)

should be:

public bool Check (string word)

Jeff

4

That’s actually not what your script does; rather it only checks the first entry in the dictionary array and ignores the rest. In any case you don’t need to write your own function for that:

if (System.Array.IndexOf(dictionary, word) != -1) {
    Debug.Log(word + " exists in the dictionary");
}

–Eric

5

Ah OK thank you Eric but i have one more problem. I changed it to public bool Check(word string){… but now mono says “default parameter specifiers are not permitted” and “invalid expression term string.” I don’t understand this. I have one method call Check(txtinput); shouldn’t my method Check(string word) receive txtinput?

6

Never mind i figured it out. Thank you jgodfrey and eric!