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Submitted by supernova4 on Mon, 04/13/2009 - 11:57

How do you put only a certain number of character in a string?

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Fixed-Lenngth Strings

Submitted by TomL_12953 on Mon, 04/13/2009 - 20:11.

You can do this at the start of the program:

DECLARE STRING a$*10, b$*50

This will set the maximum length of a$ to 10 and b$ to 50
If you try to put more than those limits in, an exception will occur so you can trap it and issue an error message or perform corrective action.

If you just want to chop off a string at a certain number of characters, do this:

INPUT PROMPT "Enter a string: ": a$
PRINT "The first ten characters of a$ are: "; a$(1:10)
END