Strings
"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
tolower
toupper
tolower string;
std c functions
example
_val= "this" strcmp tolower"tHiS";