Get Value Certain Length

[l0tt0]

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]

code:

var letter:string(1) %<- note the (1), its important getch(letter) put letter

getch() reads a single character from input buffer. If you want more then a single letter of input, you would run getch in a forloop.

[PaddyLong]

a function I just wrote up ... hope it does what you need

it will get characters for the string until enter is pressed or until there are the set number of characters. if you want it to keep going even if they push enter (so it will always get exactly the number of characters you specify) then take out the "ord (ch) = 10 or " in the exit statement

code:

function getWord (wordLength : int) : string     var word, tempWord : string := ""     var ch : string (1)     loop         getch (ch)         if ord (ch) >= 32 and ord (ch) <= 126 then             put ch ..             word += ch         elsif ord (ch) = 8 and length (word) >= 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]

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

[Tony]

should have read the whole code first

code:

var ch : string (1)

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

[hackman]

i meant in the getch comand, as in

var ans:string (1)
getch (ans)

[Tony]

ohhh lol

ch in "getch" is short for character.

[hackman]

wohoo my guese was right!