How to detect certain text in an input field?

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Hello everyone, let me get right to it. So you know how many games have a sort of type in cheatcode to unlock stuff, like the cheatcode system in Turok, Need for Speed, and Conker's Bad Fur Day. So what I'm asking is how can I detect a certain input like the word "Unlocked" and have it do something like a Debug.Log. So pretty much like have the input field there. The player types in something specific like "Unlocked" and a debug.log shows up. If they type something else, an error message shows up in a debug.log. I would show a piece of code, but I don't know how to even start with this input field. Any help would be totally appreciated. I will be clearer if needed.

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Answer by Nazirzadeh · Apr 11, 2018 at 12:53 AM

Hi,

 public InputField mainInputField;
 public string myText;

Then inside your function:

   myText=mainInputField.text;
     if(myText == "Unlocked")
     {
       Debug.Log("blah blah");
     }
     else{ 
       Debug.Log(" Blerg!");
     }

Also, take a look at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28273062/get-text-from-input-field-in-unity3d-with-c-sharp

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AlejandroBoss10 · Apr 11, 2018 at 07:38 PM 0

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This worked pretty well for me. Below is my full code that anyone can use.

using System.Collections; using System.Collections.Generic; using UnityEngine; using UnityEngine.UI; using UnityEngine.Scene$$anonymous$$anagement;

public class That : $$anonymous$$onoBehaviour { public InputField mainInputField;

 public string myText; // to show what the text is saying
 public string NewScene; // a string in which you type in the name of ur scene
 public string Cheatcode; // what you want your cheatcode to be

 private void Update()
 {
     Itworked();
 }

 void Itworked()
 {
     myText = mainInputField.text;
     if (myText == Cheatcode)
     {
         //below is where you would put what you want it to do
         Debug.Log("blah blah");
         Scene$$anonymous$$anager.LoadScene(NewScene);

     }
     // feel free to add this if needed
     /* else
   {n nj
   Debug.Log(" Blerg!");
   } */
 }

}

So what I did was I made a script called "That" in Unity. Attached it to the InputField game object. Put my cheatcode name and scene name that I wanted it to load. Then click Play, type in your cheatcode letter by letter, and it should work.

Answer 2

Answer by burhanasikwala · Nov 25, 2020 at 09:27 AM

It is actually pretty easy.

 using UnityEngine.UI;
 
 class Test : MonoBehaviour
 {
     public InputField inp;
 
     void Update()
     {
         if(inp.text == "text")
         {
             Debug.Log("Player entered text");
         }
     }
 }

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