write array to file

[csarmi]

I imagine something like the Fisher-Yates shuffle would be easy enough to implement in WML:

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#define SHUFFLE_ARRAY ARR
{VARIABLE n ${ARR}.length}
[while]
 [variable]
  name=n
  greater_than=1
 [/variable]
 [do]
  {VARIABLE_OP n add "-1"}
  {VARIABLE_OP k rand "0..$n"}
  [set_variables]
   name=temp
   to_variable={ARR}[$k]
  [/set_variables]
  [set_variables]
   name={ARR}[$k]
   to_variable={ARR}[$n]
  [/set_variables]
  [set_variables]
   name={ARR}[$n]
   to_variable=temp
  [/set_variables]
 [/do]
[/while]
#enddef

disclaimer: untested

I've got a simple question. Suppose I create an array, and shuffle it.
I'd like to write out the results (what ended up where) in some easy-to-read format when the game is running. Is it possible to write it out into some logfile, savefile, plain text file or smth like that?

If its only possible to write it out into the save/replay file, how to store them so that it'd be easy to export?

[Sapient]

1. [set_variable][join] can be used to join array contents into a single string

2. [wml_message] can be used to write console output from WML
(however, on recent windows builds it will go to stderr.txt or stdout.txt)

3. console output can be redirected to a file when starting Wesnoth

There are a couple of alternatives to consider:

A. use :inspect or [inspect] to inspect variable contents

B. use persistent variables (http://wiki.wesnoth.org/PersistenceWML)

[csarmi]

The point is to input a player list and sort them into groups then have that list in a readable format so that a wesnoth noob can read it even.

Thanks