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Jac
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Posted: 17th Oct 2004 21:13
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hi,

I'm learning about parsing strings at the moment but don't seem to be able to understand how the space$ command works.



Shouldn't the code in the snippet print 6. All I seem to get is 0 printed on sreen.

Have i miss understood the syntax of am I doing something wrong.

Thanks

JC

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 17th Oct 2004 21:23
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You haven't set X to anything, try adding x=6 at the top of your code. Also, you're just printing out X (which, as it hasn't been set to anything, will have a value of zero).

space returns a string consisting of X spaces. Printing it out won't really show much Try this:



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Jac
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Posted: 17th Oct 2004 21:38
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Thanks Richard

I completely mis understood what the command did. I was trying to find a way to locate and count the spaces in a sting that I already have. I first tryed this



but that's not working either.

Anyone got any pointers on how to locate spaces in a string?

JC

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Posted: 17th Oct 2004 21:47
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Maybe you aren't setting the stringSix$ variable this time, because you code works just fine:



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Jac
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Posted: 17th Oct 2004 21:53
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Thanks IanM

I ws sitting here thinking `but that code is right` then I went back to my actual code and spotted I'd missed an = from in front of the " ".

Doh. Spot the new guy!

Thanks again,

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