Modifying Arrays

Part of the Fundamentals section of Coddy's GDScript journey. Lesson 64 of 92.

You can change an element of an array by assigning a new value to its index:

var fruits := ["apple", "banana", "cherry"]
fruits[1] = "orange"
print(fruits)

["apple", "orange", "cherry"]

The element at index 1, "banana", is replaced by "orange". The other elements and the size stay the same.

Negative indexes work here too. fruits[-1] = "kiwi" replaces the last element.

Assignment only replaces elements that exist. In the 3-element array above, fruits[3] = "kiwi" is an error: index 3 does not exist, and assigning to it does not add an element.

Challenge

Easy

The array team holds four player names. The program reads two lines from the input:

index: the position of the player to replace (it can be negative, counting from the end)
new_player: the new name

Replace the name at index with new_player. The print(team) line is already written. For the inputs 1 and Zoe, the output is:

["Ana", "Zoe", "Cleo", "Dev"]

Try it yourself

extends Node

func _ready():
	var team := ["Ana", "Ben", "Cleo", "Dev"]
	var index := int(OS.read_string_from_stdin())
	var new_player := OS.read_string_from_stdin()
	# Replace the player at index with new_player
	print(team)