Key not found in a hash

[Sulucnal]

I'm pretty unfamiliar with Essentials and Ruby and am trying to implement a mechanic to make apricorn trees grow according to a timer.
To do so, I have a time_event_hash variable meant to contain every time-sensitive event where each entry would be a combination where the key is an event's unique id and the value is the time at which said apricorn's growth would be complete (in unix time).

I then have a loop in my event that compares the current unix time to the time at which the growth on my apricorn is meant to be reached by using this function:

pbGetTimeNow.to_i >= time_event_hash[get_time_event_id]

However, it makes my game crash, telling me that it can't compare an integer with a Nil value, implying that either the time_event_hash[get_time_event_id] == Nil, or that the key associated to my apricorn tree doesn't even exist.

To make sure of it, I decided to check if my hash contains the appropriate key and print the content of said hash in the command prompt if it doesn't.
Here is my code:

if time_event_hash.key?(get_time_event_id)
    echoln "%s not found in hash!" % get_time_event_id
    echoln "%s" % time_event_hash
end

And here is what it printed out:

apricorn_tree_6_10 not found in hash!
{"apricorn_tree_6_10"=>1751460881}

Does anyone know why I can't find my key in my hash while it clearly has it and what the solution to that problem could be?

Thanks in advance.

 

[wrigty12]

I'm pretty unfamiliar with Essentials and Ruby and am trying to implement a mechanic to make apricorn trees grow according to a timer.
To do so, I have a time_event_hash variable meant to contain every time-sensitive event where each entry would be a combination where the key is an event's unique id and the value is the time at which said apricorn's growth would be complete (in unix time).

I then have a loop in my event that compares the current unix time to the time at which the growth on my apricorn is meant to be reached by using this function:

pbGetTimeNow.to_i >= time_event_hash[get_time_event_id]

However, it makes my game crash, telling me that it can't compare an integer with a Nil value, implying that either the time_event_hash[get_time_event_id] == Nil, or that the key associated to my apricorn tree doesn't even exist.

To make sure of it, I decided to check if my hash contains the appropriate key and print the content of said hash in the command prompt if it doesn't.
Here is my code:

if time_event_hash.key?(get_time_event_id)
    echoln "%s not found in hash!" % get_time_event_id
    echoln "%s" % time_event_hash
end

And here is what it printed out:

Does anyone know why I can't find my key in my hash while it clearly has it and what the solution to that problem could be?

Thanks in advance.

There is already a built in way to save variables specific to events using setVariable and getVariable, so no need to recreate the wheel.

In a script call, do setVariable(val) where val is the time object you want to compare against.

Then, your comparison should be pbGetTimeNow.to_i >= getVariable