Strings

General

File Commands

O2 Comref

"string" find/findi "what"

returns offset to start of string

Example:

   "one two three" findi "TWO" , result is 4

yes. well, big deal. what's NOT documented is when it can't be found for shite's sake

answer = nil

thus a fairly straightforward

if ( (somestring findi "nothere") < 0) will fail, it's always there because it's NIL (jesus)

(>=0 will work)

note to self, some would-be language makers should read the perl cookbook which states fairly early on

" we take some things to be self evident"

string @ idx

Example:

   "Hello" @ 2 , result is "l"

string @ [from,to]

returns a substr

Example:

   "Hello world" @ [2,7] , result is llo w

str AnyThing

returns "whatever anything is"

example:

str _thing;

String strCmp String

returns standard c strcmp()

case insensitive equivalent ==

(tolower String) strCmp (tolower String)

i've put brackets round this because in this language, the use of them is un-intuitive and NEVER self evident. Sometimes their use is contradictory

if you need bullet proof, (everything) sigh

note, case sensitive unfortunately

toupper

tolower string;

std c functions

example

_val= "this" strcmp tolower"tHiS";