Question about String operations 1

[powahusr]

How can you return the value of a character at a specified position in a string?

For instance, say I have the following string:

"Baseball, Football, Hockey and Basketball"

If I wanted to return the value of the character at positions 5 and 23 ("b", "c&quot, how would I be able to do it?

I tried using the "Find" function, but that only returns the first occurrence of a character. Not quite, what I am looking for. I also tried incorporating a loop structure and modified the Find function, but it seems as though the "Find" function is limited.

Any Suggestions?

Thanks in Advance!!!

 

[csteinhilber]

Hmmmm... seems like you're asking two different questions.

You would use

Find()

in the opposite way of what you describe. The

Find()

function takes the base string, and finds the position of a given substring.

ie- in your example, if I said:

Find("Baseball, Football, Hockey and Basketball","b")

it would return "5" (since the first B is capitalized, and we're using Find instead of FindNoCase).

But from your initial question, it sounds like you actually want to go the other way... find the character that's at position 5.

You could do this with the

Mid()

function.

Mid("Baseball, Football, Hockey and Basketball",5,1)

would return "b".


Is that what you're after?




-Carl

 

[powahusr]

Yes, your answer was the approach I was looking to take to solving the problem. Thank You