I have a question. How can I be able to compare one string to another. An example being that I have Str0 equal, let's say, "HI" and I have the user input something in Str1. I want to see if Str0=Str1, and if so, do a command. I originally though Str0=Str1, but that gave an error. I thought of inString(Str1,Str0), but that gave an error as well. Does anyone have an answer?

Sure, but one thing that stinks about TI-Basic is that you have to compare the lengths of the stings before you compare them, and that will destroy two variables, Ans, and some other for this one: (NOTE: 68k Basic can do this.... )


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Oh, and Ans will contain the result. For example, do this directly after:

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OK, so I soft of understand how to do this. Is there by chance an easier way, as I will be repeating this about 8 or 9 times.

Uh, if you use inString, it does work.

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Or at least it worked on my calc.

I got that to work to, the only problem is that it isn't something that is typed in and can be repeated, it is a one, time thing.

Here is a snippet of the code for better understanding:

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The two sub parts if for dividing a string with spaces into two different parts. Example: "Hello There" in Str1 to "Hello" in Str1 and "There" in Str2. It can go up to ten words, but when I run the code like this, which continues for a few sets, the other strings have the same thing, so it would be "Hello" in Str1 and "There" in Str2-Str9

Try this for what you told me:

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That is because the way your code works is that it doesn't stop if there are no more spaces to parse. Here's how you could do something that would take up to 10 words in Str0 and put them in Str1-Str0 respectively: (NOTE: If there is less than 10 strings, the other string variables are left alone.

Hope this helps!

EDIT: This can also be changed around to prevent ever having to store the strings anywhere, so theoretically you could have a super-long string. Applications include a text editor's file names....

EDIT5: Oh wait, is this for some kind of command-line interface? If so, remember this: Ans is your best friend.

(Assuming the input Str0 is something like: "Hello There")


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EDIT: Also, if you want, you could do a quick modification like this to tell you how many words there are: (Output in C variable)

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Hope this helps! It sure beats having to check each string.

EDIT2: Sorry if my above code was kind of confusing; let me expalin it a little better.


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This makes sure that the strings are the same length. If they aren't, they obviously don't match.

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This executes the next statement if the lengths match

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This is just some silly stuff that compares each character to the other string.

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This executes if the strings are the same. If the strings are not the same length, this is skipped as well, because the previous statement wasn't executed.

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Mateo, your code is great, I tested it multiple times and it works every time, except there is one thing. When entering a phrase less than ten words, Str0 is the original phrase with an added space in the beginning. The code that I used was:


Edit: I fixed it. After the to Ends, I placed in a small line of code

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This seemed to fix the problem.

Edit 2: Since I am this far, I will say that I am making a hangman game. I have made it so that it will only take the first five words, with Str6-Str0 being the dashes where the missing letters go. I need help placing the letters back into the strings. Would you have any knowledge on how to do that?

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So this line adds a space at the beginning and end of the original string in order to make indexing simpler. If you want Str0 to be the first word, and Str9 to be the last word, you could do something like this:


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Yes, I have fixed that so it doesn't do that anymore. If you have read my second edit, do you know of any way if could do that?

Sorry, I am a tad confused... So you have strings for the dashes? Could you make it so the dashes are simply drawn depending on the length of the inputted strings? Ah, and am I correct in thinking that you are trying to have a letter inputted, and then to place the letter in the correct spot? One bit of advice I have is that inString() returns the location of the specified string, and can also be used as the third argument.

It doesn't seem like you are, but I will explain it nonetheless. The game I am making is Hangman. I have Str1-Str5 dedicated to holding the words and I have Str6-Str0 dedicated to holding the dashes (Str1="Hello", Str6="-----", Str2="Hi", Str7="--", etc.). I was wondering if there was a way, when someone inputted a number by pressing the corresponding button, to place a letter inside of the string without getting rid of the other dashes/letters all ready in there.

The way that you are trying to do the dashes is a little more confusing than it needs to be. All you need to do is to use length(Str#) to find the total length of the string, and then use a for loop to display dashes that many times.
Here's a sample of how that would work.

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One more thing you could try to reduce the number of strings that you use is to just separate each group by 10 spaces and have a work inside that group. That way you can use instring to display every 10 characters so that you would only use 1 string. I don't know if that's better, but it makes the program seem a little cleaner .

No, I have that part all taken care of, I have it as:

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What I was wondering if there was a way to input something into a string without getting rid of whatever is in the string.
Example:
Str1="xxxxx"
I want to make it so I can insert something, let's say 3, into the string. I want it be be "xx3xx".
x=Either a "-" or a letter.

Changing a single part of the string is a lot harder. You need to copy all values until the string and then the part afterwards, while skipping the center value, but overall, you don't need to do that. Here's a sample code for how to get the parts to display.

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Great idea. Let's say, then, that the user presses the button for L. How could the Str1 change to "1011100110" without it being pre-written? Could I do something like (after using lists):

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You can have it in a list and change the value as things get stored into the list. I haven't tested it, so this might be the wrong syntax.



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So, I am putting the dashes into strings and using them that way. Could this work?

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Edit: This {L1}->{L6} is for checking later on to see if they guessed a letter correctly

Uh MrDew, don't think that everything needs to be in a string in order to display it. Really, there only needs to be 1 string, and it can be the whole size of RAM. This way, it makes a much shorter code because you can just use for loops for different string parts. In the code I put before, I used output in order to show what I wanted to display and did not store any dashes. Really, you don't need to store any dashes, just when you need to display them, do so with a simple function like the one I posted above.

So, instead of storing them in strings, I use the output method that you did in the If statement. Besides that though, how does the code look?

Thank you for everyone that helped. I have completed the program and hope to get it uploaded later tonight. I will post this thread's link in the description so that you guy scan get credit for helping.

NOTE: For anyone that came here from my hangman program overview, anyone that helped before this post helped with the project. Anyone that helped after this post did not.