string$

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 9:29 pm

sorry, another one...

is there a purebasic equivalent for STRING$? as in a$=string$(256,0)

i'm now delving deeply into purebasic, and there are so many things different from the way i was used to doing things, that i am sometimes lost... with the simplest of things...

browsing the forum and the docs don't always give me the answer (and i try, really!)

i'm going to put up a page with all the stupid things and mistakes i made to help other beginners out, once i get the hang of this language...

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 10:14 pm

Since you are working with strings, the first place you should look is under "Strings" in the docs

The quick answer is...

If you are filling with empty space, you can use:
a$=Space(256)
...fills a$ with 256 empty characters.

If you want to fill with a specific character, you could use:
a$=LSet("",256,"x")
...fills a$ with 256 x's

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 10:16 pm

You could also do it the long, slower way...

a$=""
For tmp=1 To 256
a$+"X"
Next

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 10:35 pm

this is what i get for being an old timer... i'm so stuck in old basic dialects (hey, i started on an excidy sorcerer, followed by a vic20) and all the long years (10 or so?) in gfabasic have made me expect certains things... worst of it all, i expected the different basic keywords to behave the same, and that is not a very wise thing...

sorry for asking the question, i hang my head in shame
(but don't worry, i keep on asking if i don't know

)

nessie · Post by **nessie** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 11:15 pm

Ah, the good old Vic20. Brings back many happy memories.!!

Fangbeast · Post by **Fangbeast** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 1:55 am

blueznl wrote:this is what i get for being an old timer... i'm so stuck in old basic dialects (hey, i started on an excidy sorcerer, followed by a vic20) and all the long years (10 or so?) in gfabasic have made me expect certains things... worst of it all, i expected the different basic keywords to behave the same, and that is not a very wise thing...

sorry for asking the question, i hang my head in shame
(but don't worry, i keep on asking if i don't know )

Gee, someone else as old as me in the forums:):) (I sure loved mine)

GPI · Post by **GPI** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 5:00 pm

try LSet("",256,"X")

GPI

TronDoc · Post by **TronDoc** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 5:29 pm

Fangbeast wrote:Gee, someone else as old as me in the forums:):) (I sure loved mine)

ditto

Joe

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 5:54 pm

still got a vic20 here

unfortunately the wrong colour

(it's a version 2, with brown instead of orange function keys)... if anybody has the game 'multibug' laying around somewhere (it's something i wrote ages ago, and actually even sold it)

but that's entirely off topic so i better discontinue this thread

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 5:57 pm

GPI wrote:try LSet("",256,"X")

GPI

LOL @ GPI
That was already mentioned at the top of the post

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