Is there an "or" expression?

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- alfredchicken
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Hi there

Is there an "expression" that says "or"?

If the layoutname is one of these (look at picture), then play an audio. Is the only way to do so, to make a seperatly condition for every layoutname and make an OR Block? Or is there a way to do it in the second value of the Layoutname-Condition? I want to replace the & with an OR but it wont work.

Tank you!
- WackyToaster
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Use |

Instead of &
- AllanR
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I haven't tried it, but I think using & in that case is just concatenating a long string - not evaluating one value AND the next.

So, I don't think using the logical or | symbol is going to do what you want.

I would use an array or json string to hold the name of the audio file for that level, then you wont need to have an event for every level.
- newt
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| evaluates to a Boolean comparison.

Not sure if its true/false, or 1/0, but it could work in this situation if set up properly.
- CREATOR4
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That's not how you are supposed to use expressions

Do this instead

1 means true, 0 means false
- WackyToaster
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Iirc Ashley said that you have to specify it like for it to work correctly

Layoutname = "21" | Layoutname = "22" | Layoutname = .......
- newt
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Think I'd rather go with a loop.
- blackhornet
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You want to take advantage of using numbers as your layout name, so use numbers.
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- alfredchicken
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Wow! Thank you all for your quick and different answers. I learned a lot. I did go with blackhornets solution.

Happy new year to everyone!
- Ashley Construct Team Founder
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See the manual entry on expressions which covers this, and also explains the common mistakes people make (like trying to write x = 1 | 2 which is wrong) and why they don't work.