! var definition is ignored

[oakandsage]

Using version 1.14.9, with the following begin.rive

! version = 2.0

! var myvar = hello

+ print
- myvar is <get myvar>

I expect that the user input print will result in myvar is hello but instead, it results in myvar is undefined

I also tried putting the print trigger into a different file titled hello.rive but this didn't change the behavior.

[kirsle]

Hi

! var myvar = hello sets a bot variable named myvar and you'd retreive it with <bot myvar>

User variables are set with <set> and retrieved with <get>.

! version = 2.0

! var myvar = hello

+ print
- myvar is <bot myvar>

[oakandsage]

Oh, that makes sense. Thanks... Sorry for the bad issue. My problem was that I was going off the code snippets in the tutorial, which briefly mentions bot variables and then goes back to discussing user variables with the same name, so I didn’t correctly identify which code snippets were related to ! var. I guess it doesn’t even make sense to initialize user variables that way, since that would create issues in a multi-user environment.

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[snoopyjc]

I agree naming the command "! var" to set them and to get them is confusing. Same applies to the other types of variables.

[johnnymast]

Hi, Author of Rivescript-PHP here, This is kind of off-topic but the Rivescript specs also dictate you can set bot variables in responses. This is something I missed while implementing the bot command.

+ init 
- <bot name=Johnny>done.

+ what is your name
- my name is <bot name>

I know this is off the topic of this issue but I assume not many developers know of this ability.