----------------------------------- l0tt0 Thu Oct 23, 2003 4:52 pm Get Value Certain Length ----------------------------------- Is there anyway taht when you use get variable that it can only be a certain amount of characters? Say I have a yes or no question i just want them to enter y or n... anyone? thanks in advance ----------------------------------- Tony Thu Oct 23, 2003 5:09 pm ----------------------------------- var letter:string(1) %= 32 and ord (ch) = 1 then % if it is backspace tempWord := word word := "" locate (whatrow, whatcol - 1) put " " .. locate (whatrow, whatcol - 1) for q : 1 .. length (tempWord) - 1 word += tempWord (q) end for end if exit when ord (ch) = 10 or length (word) = wordLength end loop put "" result word end getWord var someString : string someString := getWord (5) put someString ----------------------------------- hackman Mon Oct 27, 2003 11:45 am ----------------------------------- Not realy relavent but...what dose ch in getch stand for? ----------------------------------- Tony Mon Oct 27, 2003 6:11 pm ----------------------------------- should have read the whole code first :roll: var ch : string (1) ch is a name of a variable of string(1) type ----------------------------------- hackman Tue Oct 28, 2003 11:46 am ----------------------------------- i meant in the getch comand, as in var ans:string (1) getch (ans) ----------------------------------- Tony Tue Oct 28, 2003 5:33 pm ----------------------------------- ohhh :roll: lol :lol: ch in "getch" is short for character. ----------------------------------- hackman Wed Oct 29, 2003 10:51 am ----------------------------------- :D wohoo my guese was right!