String manipulation

[sockoo]

Alright so i want to Manipulate a string by writing it backwards

for example : a program that spells Night like this :
t
th
thg
thgi
thgin

So far this is what i'v come up with :

code:

var sentence : string sentence := "Night" for decreasing i : length(sentence) .. 1         put sentence (i) end for

[Clayton]

put a ".." after your "put sentence (i)", this just causes the next input/output using put or get to occur on the same line

[aldreneo]

code:

var word1:string var word: flexible array 1 .. 0 of string put "Enter a word: ".. get word1 for decreasing i : length(word1) .. 1 new word, upper (word) + 1 word(upper(word)) := word1(i) end for for i : lower (word) .. upper (word) put word(i) .. end for

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[sockoo]

SuperFreak82 wrote:

put a ".." after your "put sentence (i)", this just causes the next input/output using put or get to occur on the same line

Ideally this is what im looking for except i'd like to see each step the program has gone through for it to reach its ending of spelling the word backwards.

I want it to spell the word backwards one letter at a time.

[aldreneo]

Here you are:

code:

var word1 : string var worda : flexible array 1 .. 0 of string put "Enter a word: " .. get word1 for decreasing i : length (word1) .. 1     new worda, upper (worda) + 1     worda (upper (worda)) := word1 (i)     for b : lower (worda) .. upper (worda)         put worda (b) ..     end for     put "" end for

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[TheOneTrueGod]

Don't do peoples work for them. It doesn't help them at all.

Anyways, strings can be concatenated using the + operator.

code:

var a : string := "Hello" a := a + " " a += "World" a := "I would like to say, " + a put a

(untested)

That should help you out in string management.

[sockoo]

TheOneTrueGod wrote:

Don't do peoples work for them. It doesn't help them at all.

I Agree!! , And Thank You!

Also Thank you for ur help Aldreneo but i'v created my own source code with less lines than your's

code:

var sentence : string := "simple" var nothing : string := " " for decreasing i : length (sentence) .. 1     nothing += sentence (i)     put nothing end for

[MysticVegeta]

You know to add a string to another string, it doesnt have to have some character in it, the "nothing" string could also be "" instead of " " to begin with.

[aldreneo]

Ya, but try putting a GIANT 300 charictor thing..It says "string to long"

Mine supports that

If you would ever need that

[[Gandalf]]

OK, but I must point out why that is incorrect reasoning. In your version, you're starting out with a string, so the reversed string is only going to be as long as the original. Now, if you were going to get an error for concatenating too many characters to the string (when reversing it), you would have gotten the same error for originally declaring the string with too many characters. So there's really no point to using a flexible array since the original string is limited by the 255 character maximum.

[aldreneo]

[Gandalf] wrote:

OK, but I must point out why that is incorrect reasoning. In your version, you're starting out with a string, so the reversed string is only going to be as long as the original. Now, if you were going to get an error for concatenating too many characters to the string (when reversing it), you would have gotten the same error for originally declaring the string with too many characters. So there's really no point to using a flexible array since the original string is limited by the 255 character maximum.

Oh, right