Advanced string manipulation: Help needed

[echeese]

Hello, all, I need commands for string manipulation. Please post all the ones you can think of. If there's one like PHP's explode, post it as well, or something that can get the x'th word from a string like
getword("This is a test, ok?", 3, " ") would return "test,"

[thoughtful]

you can use something like this

code:

var temp : string := "this is a test" put temp (1 .. 4) put temp (11 .. *)

[echeese]

Yes, but what if you don't know the length of the word, or even how many words there are?

[Tony]

to get the length of the string, you can use

code:

put length("compsci")

use substrings to find spaces and break sentance into separate words.

you can ether use variableName(index) method or index()

[Andy]

to check the number of words:

code:

var count:=0 for i:1..length(word)     if word(i)=" " then         count+=1     end if end for if word(*) not= " " then     count+=1 end if put count

[Homer_simpson]

how bout a nice function for it?

code:

function returnword (s : string, separator : char, n : int) : string     var wi := 1     var s2 := ""     for i : 1 .. length (s)         if wi >= n then             if s (i) = separator then                 result s2             end if             s2 += s (i)         end if         if s (i) = separator then             wi += 1         end if     end for     if s2 not= "" then         result s2     else         result "Couldn't find that many words!"     end if end returnword put returnword ("Spammers suck juicy cocks!", " ", 3)

[echeese]

Thank you Homer... By the way, this is for my next Net project... It's a 3 letter word with the first letter I, last is C and it's full of R... Take a guess...

Argh!!! I'm glad I didn't submit this post... Is there a way using Net to read more than 255 chars? Server sends me a string > 255 chars

[Tony]

i belive homer wrote a net server app that accepts 255+ characters. You should take a look at that - its here

[echeese]

lol, that's my server, with Homer's addons I'm now working on a bot for IRC called cOOTie

[Dan]

echeese wrote:

lol, that's my server, with Homer's addons I'm now working on a bot for IRC called cOOTie

in turing?

[echeese]

Hacker Dan: Yes. In Turing... I decided to actually make it a client. Check it out under submissions.

[Dan]

wow, you shure got crazy ideas for turings net comands. why not check out c++ ? you get alot more power and fuctionaliy out of it and it has some nice netwrok related librablerys

[DanShadow]

Advanced String Manipulation...hmm, well if you want to do it the advanced way, use the almighty 'ord' command, and ascii codes.
This code works out if you want to be very detail specific to characters put in, cast sensitiveness, checking all letters in a word, checking words, etc.
[ I dont know why, but it cuts out the last two letters, ]

code:

var words : array 1 .. 20 of string var num_words, input_length : int := 0 var ch_temp : string (1) := "" var str_temp, input : string := "" var num_temp, num_temp2 : int := 1 for i : 1 .. 20     words (i) := " " end for color (12) colorback (black) put "Enter a few words to test this: " .. color (white) get input : * loop     loop         ch_temp := input (num_temp)         num_temp := num_temp + 1         exit when ch_temp = " " or num_temp = length (input)         str_temp := str_temp + ch_temp         put str_temp, " " ..     end loop     words (num_temp2) := str_temp     str_temp := ""     num_temp2 := num_temp2 + 1     exit when num_temp = length (input) end loop loop     color (green)     colorback (black)     locate (1, 1)     put "What Word Would You Like to See in the 'Words' array? "     locate (2, 1)     put ""     locate (2, 1)     put "Word: " ..     get num_temp     if num_temp > 0 and num_temp <= 20 then         locate (4, 1)         put ""         locate (4, 1)         put "Word #" ..         color (white)         put num_temp, "" ..         color (green)         put " is: " ..         color (12)         put words (num_temp)     else         locate (4, 1)         put ""         locate (4, 1)         put num_temp, " isnt between 1-20, and therefore isnt in the 'Words' array."     end if end loop