Strangest error ever

[packocrayons]

What is it you are trying to achieve?
get an answer and separate it into command and subcommand, and go to a process based on command


What is the problem you are having?
When certain subcommand and command combinations are used, an if statement isn't entered.
When "drop burger" is entered, the for loop runs twice, erroring the first time (as it should), and then doesn't enter the if statement the second time at all. the program jumps right to "Invalid command"
"drop potato" runs the for loop 3 times, working the first two and then jumping to "invalid command"
"take axe" errors, but "drop axe" does not
most other attempted "drop" commands work.
all other commands work, drop and take are the only issues as of yet


Describe what you have tried to solve this problem
I have added put statements and the delay in the loop to make it run at troubleshoot speed, I really don't know how to address the problem.


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Turing:

procedure commandcalc     for i : 1 .. length(answer)         put i         put answer (i)         delay (1000)         if answer (i) = " " then             command := answer (1 .. (i - 1))             subcommand := answer ((i + 1) .. *)             exit         elsif answer (i) = answer (*) then             command := answer (1 .. *)             exit         else         put "Error"         end if     end for     if command = "go" then         go     elsif command = "drop" then         drop     elsif command = "look" then         look     elsif command = "kill" then         kill     elsif command = "open" then         Open     elsif command = "close" then         Close     elsif command = "take" then          take     elsif command = "buy" then         buy     elsif command = "stats" then          stats     elsif command = "inventory" then         inventoryProcedure     elsif command = "list" then         list     else         put "Invalid command"         space     end if end commandcalc

Please specify what version of Turing you are using
Tried on both 4.1.2 and 4.1.1, using 4.1.2 now.

[Dreadnought]

What are you asking the program to do here?

Turing:

elsif answer (i) = answer (*) then

[Nacoty]

Dreadnought @ Thu Feb 28, 2013 3:43 pm wrote:

What are you asking the program to do here?

Turing:

elsif answer (i) = answer (*) then

It is checking if the letter that the for loop is currently checking is the last letter in the string. At least I'm pretty sure it is.

[Dreadnought]

Suppose you have a sting "yolo".

clearly string(1) not= string(*)
what about string(2) and string(*)?

[Nacoty]

We fixed it, it's fine.