Feedback making a whitelist/ black list

so im tryna make a whitelist / blacklist for my selector. I want my selector to check and see if the object that its raycasting too is on the whitelist / blacklist and if it is then ignore it. Here is bits of what I have so far.

Code (CSharp):

1. public GameObject highlighted;
2.  
3. public List<GameObject[]> whiteList = new List<GameObject[]>();
4.  
5.    public GameObject[] bckGround, ground, backGroundWalls, trees;
6.  
7.  
8. void Start()
9. {
10. bckGround = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("BackGround");
11.         ground = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("Ground");
12.         backGroundWalls = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("BackGroundWalls");
13.         //trees = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("Trees");
14. }
15.  
16. void Update()
17. {
18. whiteList.Add(bckGround);
19.         whiteList.Add(ground);
20.         whiteList.Add(backGroundWalls);
21.         //whiteList.Add(trees);
22. SelectObject();
23. }
24.  
25. void SelectObject()
26. {
27. if(highlighted = whiteList)
28.         {
29.             ClearSelection();
30.         }
31. }
32.  
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35.  

its currently saying gameobject does not work with gameobject[] and idk how to work around that but i do know that this is the problem

Code (CSharp):

1. if(highlighted = whiteList)
2.         {
3.             ClearSelection();
4.         }

However I would also like suggests if there is a better way to do this.

 

Single equal sign is an assignment.

Double equal sign is comparison.

HOWEVER... you are comparing apples and oranges. (a GameObject vs an Array of GameObjects)

You need to iterate each item in whiteList (or blackList) and check it to see if it matches.

 

im not sure how to do what your saying but my mind is saying to do this with the way you stated it

Code (CSharp):

1. if(highlighted == bckGround || highlighted == backGroundWalls || highlighted == ground)
2.         {
3.             ClearSelection();
4.         }

i also changed

Code (CSharp):

1. bckGround = GameObject.FindWithTag("BackGround");
2.         ground = GameObject.FindWithTag("Ground");
3.         backGroundWalls = GameObject.FindWithTag("BackGroundWalls");

 

You definitely need to get familiar with the concept of iteration.

For example:

Code (csharp):

1. bool isWhitelisted = false;
2.  
3. // iterate
4. foreach( var item in whiteList)
5. {
6.   // compare
7.   if (highlighted == item)
8.   {
9.     isWhitelisted = true;
10.     break;
11.   }
12. }
13.  
14. Debug.Log( "whitelisted:" + isWhitelisted);

Anytime you have a collection you generally need to consider each item one at a time.

 

so im not able to make an unlimited list i will have to write everything down and ask the code to search that array?