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l0tt0

Thu Oct 23, 2003 4:52 pm


Get Value Certain Length

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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


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Tony

Thu Oct 23, 2003 5:09 pm



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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



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hackman

Mon Oct 27, 2003 11:45 am



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Not realy relavent but...what dose ch in getch stand for?


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Tony

Mon Oct 27, 2003 6:11 pm



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should have read the whole code first :roll:

var ch : string (1) 


ch is a name of a variable of string(1) type


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hackman

Tue Oct 28, 2003 11:46 am



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i meant in the getch comand, as in

var ans:string (1)
getch (ans)


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Tony

Tue Oct 28, 2003 5:33 pm



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ohhh :roll: lol :lol:

ch in "getch" is short for character.


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hackman

Wed Oct 29, 2003 10:51 am



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:D wohoo my guese was right!