Computer Science Canada String manipulation |
Author: | Vicous [ Thu Apr 03, 2003 11:49 am ] |
Post subject: | String manipulation |
This code takes a sentence and capitolizes the letters of each word, try it! Quote: var phrase, newPhrase : string := "" %the variables holding the unrevised and revised phrases
loop put "Enter your phrase, Enter exit to stop: " .. get phrase : * %get the whole phrase exit when phrase = "exit" exit when phrase = "Exit" exit when phrase = "EXIT" %sentinals to exit the loop for letter : 1 .. length (phrase) if letter = 1 then if phrase (letter .. letter) >= "a" and phrase (letter .. letter) <= "z" then newPhrase := newPhrase + chr (ord (phrase (1 .. 1)) - 32) %capitolizes the first letter automaticly else newPhrase := newPhrase + phrase (1 .. 1) %if first letter isn't a small letter, it is put in where it came from end if elsif phrase (letter - 1 .. letter - 1) = " " then newPhrase := newPhrase + chr (ord (phrase (letter .. letter)) - 32) elsif phrase (letter .. letter) < "a" or phrase (letter .. letter) > "z" then if phrase (letter .. letter) = " " then newPhrase := newPhrase + " " end if else newPhrase := newPhrase + phrase (letter .. letter) end if end for put newPhrase end loop im in a hurry, will explain the commands used later |
Author: | Asok [ Thu Apr 03, 2003 1:41 pm ] |
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it seems to bug out when you type full phrases in caps. |
Author: | Vicous [ Mon Apr 07, 2003 1:43 pm ] |
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srry it took me so long to get back to this, here is the explanation adding strings together is done with the addition command, such as... put "O" + "K" (use variables instead of letters when needed, this also works with string variables e.g. phrase= phrase + word) you can also find how many charectors are in a word using the length feature, e.g. get word put "There are ", length(word), " Charectors in your word." this can be used in for loops to get parts of a string, explained next substrings, that is a section of a string that you have extracted, can be aquired using the substring command ( a set of brackets after the word/variable with a number in it, or several numbers, e.g. word(1) will get the first letter of the word in the variable word. word(2..4) will get you the second, third and forth letter in the string word you can find a pattern in a string using the index command. e.g. index("Getting","t") will return a value of 3, as the third letter is the first t found (Use a variable for the word getting or the pattern to look for when necessary) Ill leave the rest to you, but some examples of where this is useful is password programs, adding brackets to user inputed phone numbers, etc. p.s. make fun of my spelling mistakes if you want to, I can take it |