In-Game Command Recognition

I have a chat box in my game and I would like to be able to make it so that it can recognize specific commands from the player.

I already have it so that you can enter to start the command, and I know I can use if command == "whatever command I want", but how would I recognize specific words in a string? Like /tp in minecraft teleportation?

Thanks in advance!

 

1 - Check the first character for your command string (/) if(command[0] == "/") and remove the command character.
2 - Tokenize the String (stringsplit on spacebar or other)
3 - Switch on command[1]
4 - implement your case statements (via delegates or other command handler methods)

Give this a try.
If you cannot get it to work, I will post some code later.

 

Hmm. Thanks for the post! Looks like it'll work... Hold on...

 

Um, sorry for the double post, but it seems string.Split is not working well.

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. var command : String[];
3.    
4. command = textField.Split(" ", [0]);
5.  

EDIT: It says No appropriate version of 'String.Split' for the argument list '(String, int[])' was found.

EDIT... AGAIN: Fixed! Thanks joshimoo, works perfectly! It had to be " " [0] with no comma!