Limiting Get Statements to a certain amount of letters

[Joe Keller]

What is the problem you are having?
Okay so my problem is that I am asking the user to enter his initials, and i want to limit it so that he cant enter more than 2 letters, because i have a background space in which only that many letters can fit in, so if i enter J.K. it'll fit, but Joe K wont so when i say: get username, how do i limit it so that the user cant enter more than two letters.

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Turing:

<Add your code here>  get username    <--- %when i draw it down there the name can go on really long, i want to limit it so that it can only be like 2 or 3 letters, so some idiot doesnt enter Joe K thinking thats his initials     var font4 : int     font4 := Font.New ("Arial:20")     Font.Draw (username, 65, 115, font4, 7)

[crossley7]

try to have something like this

Turing:

var initials : string (2) % The 2 means the size of the string is only 2 characters. get initials

You could also read in as characters, etc. A few different ways around the problem

[Alex C.]

well put the get statement in a loop, then an if statement that checks "if length (username) >= 2 then blah-blah elsif length (username)= 2 exit loop

something like that... Look up the proper syntax!

EDIT: ...damn i got beat

[Joe Keller]

Thanks Alot Guys, I really appreciate it, and Both of you were an incredible help!

[Tony]

you can try reading the documentation for get -- it talks about just this.