book ends

[scorpion1087]

a book end is when you take a letter in a word and stop the word when you see the letter again. then show whats in the middle.

science-take the "C" therefore the word would be "cienc"
a skeleton for this would be great, thanks

[Tony]

umm... just use substrings to read each letter at the time. Maybe this will help?

code:

var word:string := "science" for i:1..length(word) put word(i) end for

[Dan]

he is a fast thing i made up

code:

var worad : string var letter : string var newString : string := "" var flag : boolean := false var num : int := 0 put "put in wroad" get worad put "what letter to use for book end?" get letter loop     num += 1     if flag then         newString += worad(num)     end if         if worad (num) = letter and flag = false then             flag := true             newString += letter     elsif worad(num) = letter and flag then             exit     end if         if num = length (worad) then         exit     end if end loop put "" put "output: ", newString

you have to use substrings to readed each letter of the worad. this verson still has a few bugs but should give you an idea on how to do it