You kind of got it backwards a little. Right now it asks for your name again and again until you enter Z or A and then asks you again inside the loop. Instead it would be better to write the "Enter your name please" text every loop except the first. And exit the loop when the name is good.

I do not know how to fix it easier then this:

Turing:

var name1 : char put "Enter your name then press the shift key to continue" loop     exit when eof     get name1     exit when name1 = KEY_SHIFT end loop

To prevent the input cursor from going to the next line, you have to erase the contents of the input box, and set the input cursor's location back to the beginning of the input box. See the following code for an example:

Turing:

if name1 < "A" or name1 < "a" or name1 > "z" or name1 > "z" then     Draw.Text ("Error, Enter your name again", maxx div 2 - 100, maxy div 2 - 50, f2, red)     Text.Locate (16, 4)     for i : 1 .. 49         put " " ..     end for     Text.Locate (16, 4)     get name1 end if

Your if statement looks a bit funny by the way. Are you trying to check the string for non-letters? If so, you have to check every letter one at a time. Comparing the whole string won't work.

i tired ur code and still didnt really work, the user can still press enter and it will go to the next line, and for the if statments what is funny about it ??, u dont have to check every letter this way is much easier and simpler and does the exact same thing so ...

nope it is asking the user for their names the > a and < z is just to check if the user enters letters not other characters for ex numbers, and what do you mean the name is good ?? how im going to know if it is good or not ??

You program runs like this:

code:

loop     text locate     get name     if name has non alphabetical characters then         %Needs a text locate here in order to have it appear over the other text         %To solve your origional problem         %However this is not the right way to do it         get name     end if end loop

You are asking for the name twice in the same loop. And at that, your origional text would still show without drawing over it first. Why? Why not just let the loop cycle and ask for the name again?

code:

loop     text locate     get name     exit when name is okay end loop

Or more specifically:

code:

loop     text locate     get name     if name has only alphabetical characters then         exit     end if end loop

Also. You need to look up the function ord since it will get a ASCII number value of a character. Then just look at your friend neighbourhood ASCII chart to look at the ranges you want.

Here's a copy of an ascii chart: http://www.jimprice.com/ascii-0-127.gif

put ord("A") %outputs 65

You can see that the ascii value of A is 65 while the lowercase is 97. Z=90 and z=122.

The diference between capitals and lowercase is 32.

You do know how to specify a range of numbers right?

Okay. But you want it to ask for the name again if there is numbers right? and if it's only letters then you exit the loop and finish the program right?

To compare the individual letters of a string, you use the index of the character you want. So if you want to check the first letter:

code:

var name : string get name put name(1)

So, wait, if I understand this right, you want it to ask for their name twice on the same line?

If that's the case, I'd like you to go back to the start of the thread when the people told you to use locate(row,column).

Yes, you mean you want it to keep it on the same line.
which means you want locate(row,column)
For example:

code:

var name : string get name locate (1, length(name)+2) get name

locate will move the text cursor to the selected row and column.

Ooooooooh. What you want can't be done using get command. However it won't add the return value into the variable dude. So don't worry.

If you want to make it so you can only write Alphabetical characters and ignore numbers and return statements. You'll have to imitate the get command with getch(). I'll explain more so if your interested.

Also. Your if statement to check each character for numbers still doesn't work as intended. Your comparing a string to a character. You need to check each character in the string.

but why do i need to do that i dont want the user to be forced to put only letters u kno maybe someone wants to use m332 or something like that as their name i just want turing to know when they press the key enter it should just ask for the name again and not go to the next line