Max string size

[Mephi]

how do you make it so that if a person puts in more than 256 characters or whatever the limit is it doesn't crash? can you make it so theres no limit?

[Asok]

code:

var str : string put "enter the string" get str : 6 put str

this for example will only get the first 6 characters in the string

[nate]

var text : string (20)

get text : 20

put text

This limits both the variable and the text you can enter. Right now it is 20 but you can change it to the 250 limit

-Nate

[Mephi]

hey nate:P (to both) they dont work.....if you put in a number larger than 255 its an error

[Asok]

mephi, are you trying to exceed the 255 cap or make it so that the user doesn't enter into the 255 cap?

[Mephi]

well exceed mainly, but i guess just limiting is ok too....thx....as long as it duznt crash (my comp teachers really stingy, he keeps tryin to crash our programs ne way possible)

[Mephi]

code:

var x :string get x : 8 put x, "!"

how come if its less than 8 the ! goes on a different line? or is this just me?

[Tony]

I belive this issue was already addressed by the use of getch() in a loop

code:

var c:string(1) %for getch var text:string := "" %store text here var counter:int := 0 %counter put "enter your string, 255 max" loop getch(c) if c=chr(10) then %if enter is pressed exit end if text := text + c counter += 1 if counter =255 then %your string is already 255 long put "I said 255 characters max" exit end if end loop put "your string is : ", text

[Mephi]

nvm i found an easier way:

code:

var x : string get x if length (x) > 8 then     x := x (1 .. 8) end if put x, "!"

just takes first 8 characters

[Tony]

well you can still type in 300 characters and your program will crash. Using getch will read input 1 key at a time, safeguarding your string variable

[jamez]

Mephi wrote:

nvm i found an easier way:

code:

var x : string get x if length (x) > 8 then     x := x (1 .. 8) end if put x, "!"

just takes first 8 characters

have 'get x' allows the user to input 1000s of characters