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breaking a string down into characters
Author:  Leefhead [ Sat Nov 29, 2008 3:37 am ]
Post subject:  breaking a string down into characters
its been about 3 years since i was in highschool and used turing at all, so needless to say, i dont remember a whole lot of it. my girlfriend is having problems with a word game, so i decided i would make a program to pretty much make her annihilate the score board, lol. anyways, im inputting a text file with a list of words into a flexible array, and im getting a list of characters inputted by the user, put that into a array. only part i dont remember how to do is break down the words that i got out of the text files down into characters so i can compare the characters in the words with the characters that were typed in to make sure that their equal. for example....list of words

code:

aa
aah
aahed
aahing
aahs
aal
aalii
aaliis
aals
aardvark
aardwolf
aargh
aarrgh
aarrghh
aas
aasvogel
ab
aba
abaca
abacas
abaci


ect....(yes i know that a lot of those arent words...im going to work on that after), say the user typed in

code:

a
b
c
d
e
f
g


i want it to compare the list of words with the characters, so ...

code:

aa = false (only one a)
aah = false (only one a)
aahed= false (only one a)
aahing= false (only one a)
aahs= false (only one a)
aal= false (only one a)
aalii= false (only one a)
aaliis= false (only one a)
aals= false (only one a)
aardvark= false (only one a)
aardwolf= false (only one a)
aargh= false (only one a)
aarrgh= false (only one a)
aarrghh= false (only one a)
aas= false (only one a)
aasvogel= false (only one a)
ab = true (one a, one b)
aba = false (only one a)
abdc = true
abcds = false (no s)
abaci = false (only one a)


so...theres my question...lets see if anyone understands what im saying, and might even have an answer for me, haha. Thanks.

Mod Edit: Just making your post easier to read with code tags
Author:  Insectoid [ Sat Nov 29, 2008 8:52 am ]
Post subject:  RE:breaking a string down into characters
<string>(index). For example,
code:

var apple := "apple"
put apple (3)

This will return the third letter of 'apple', 'p'.
Author:  Leefhead [ Sat Nov 29, 2008 12:15 pm ]
Post subject:  RE:breaking a string down into characters
ah yes, thanks for jaring my memory.

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