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Newcomers DBPro Corner / help! how to read+replace individual letters out of a string

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dragon tail
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Posted: 9th Oct 2004 07:18
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Right, probably sounds easy (probably is), but i basically designing a translator - secrect code hybrid thing.

what i have so far is the user types in a string using input, and that string is saved. then what i want to do is read each letter out of the string, and replace each letter which something else, say replace all the "a"s with "/"s or "b"s with "r", etc

I looked up the help files and found:

but cant get it to work for me. any help would be greatly appreciated =)

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the_winch
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Posted: 9th Oct 2004 09:35
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Prints a string a character at a time as well as the ASCII code for the character.



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Posted: 10th Oct 2004 20:35
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print "message"
input message$
a=len (message$)
dim temp$(a)
for i=1 to a
temp$(i)=mid$(message$,i)
next i

do
print "convert character"
input a$
print "to character"
input b$
for i=1 to a
if temp$(i)=a$
temp$(i)=b$
endif
next i
print "currently encoded as"
for i=1 to a
print temp$(i);
next i
print
loop

its easier to handle the text if you stuff it into an array and then play with it, this will take a string and then allow you to subsitute individual characters, hope thats some help.

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