Simple question about strings...

after reading this great tutorial about string
[http://www.blitzmax.com/Community/posts.php?topic=42058]

I've been wonder what if I wana remove a letter in the middle of the string? Is there an easy way to do this or do I have to copy from end of the string to the letter in question then delete from letter to end and then put in what was copied?

local text:string = "Welcome"
... use this

Thanks for the help :)

You can use the replace method

Local MyString:String = "Hello"
MyString = MyString.Replace("e","")

Or, if you want to remove a letter from a specific position then you can use slices.

Local text:String = "Welcome"

' remove the 4th letter (c)
' remembering that slices are zero indexed
text = text[..3] + text[4..]

Print text

What Brucey said. Done much Python programming?

Never did python

Nice Brucey, I knew of replace but thats bad if you have two of teh same letter in a string.

one thing i just noticed

' remembering that slices are zero indexed

What does that mean exactly? o.o

text = text[..3] + text[4..] wouldn't it be
text = text[..3] + text[5..] to remove 4th letter
must have to do with the zero indexed thingy which i dunno what it means.

nah because text[..3] will hold characters at indexes 0, 1, and 2 while text[4..] will hold characters at indexes 4, 5, ....
The slice function works from index a inclusive to index b exclusive, so text[1..4] will be indexes 1, 2, 3.
Hope it helps

oh
text[..3] everything before 3 not including 3
text[4..] everything above 4 including 4

I think i get it :o

first number always included, last number never included

so if no number is writen at start 0 is included but whatever number is writen at end is never included hmm

I think i get how slice works but even if you said to me (slices are zero indexed) it means nothing to me. xD

This was meant simply as a reminder that the first three items are numbered 0,1,2 rather than 1,2,3.