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Four

Tue Jan 20, 2009 5:37 pm


Using String Manipulation to Change a Space to an Underscore

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Well, I'm creating a game and for my highscore table, when they enter their name, if they enter a space, I want the space to convert to an underscore so the highscores wont get messed up. When I write the code, it says the left side is not a variable and hence cannot be assigned to.


        get strNameSub : *

        for n : 1 .. length (strNameSub)
            if strNameSub (n) = " "
                    then
                strNameSub (n) := "_"
            end if
        end for


Edit: I just tried the code below, but it does not change the space to an underscore

        for n : 1 .. length (strNameSub)
            if strNameSub (n) = " "
                    then
                put "_"
            end if
        end for
Thanks


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nike52

Tue Jan 20, 2009 7:29 pm


Re: Using String Manipulation to Change a Space to an Underscore

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try ' ' instead of " "?


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TheGuardian001

Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:41 pm


Re: Using String Manipulation to Change a Space to an Underscore

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the problem is not with the type of quotes. I believe Turing accepts either type of quotes for strings. The problem is that strNamSub(n) is not a variable, it is an index of a variable. you will probably need to totally reset your string to include "_". to reset a string character by character:


for i : 1 .. length of stringName %for every character in the string
newString += stringName(i) %add that character to a new string
end for %end


all you need to do at that point is to check what character is going in before adding it to the new string