Substring Explanation?

[Killerphill]

hello all.

I need someone to throughly explain "Substrings" for me. I dont have a clue what they do and i dont understand the whole "Substring(String,1,5). What is the 1,5 anyway? lol

anyway please help me

thanks in advance.

 

[WolfieeifloW]

(I believe) 1 is where it starts, and 5 is where it ends.
So "HelloThere" would become "Hello".

[del]I may be wrong though ![/del]

EDIT: Seems I'm right !

 

[ShadowBlade]

So why bother replying?

 

[Ryuu]

It is basically a portion of a string.
So

• Substring(Game,2,3)

gives you 'am'.
Why?

Because the second and third letters of 'Game' are:
'am'.

Need more xplanation?
Here goes.

1-2-3-4
[b]G-A-M-E[/b]

Now do you get it?
Right.

In more complicated situations.

• Trigger
  • Events
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing game as An exact match
  • Conditions
    • (Substring((Entered chat string),2,3)) Equals to "am"
  • Actions
    • Player - Victory (Triggering player)

More complicated:

• Trigger
  • Events
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing game as A substring
  • Conditions
    • (Substring((Entered chat string),6,7)) Equals to "20"
  • Actions
    • Player - Victory (Triggering player)

The above code detects if the player types 'game 20'.
Now you don't get it?

What the heck.

1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-...
[b]G-A-M-E- -?-?-?-?-...[/b]
        ^ A space

The '...' represents that the string could contain more stuff, but we don't care.
So this code:

• Trigger
  • Events
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing game as A substring
  • Conditions
    • (Substring((Entered chat string),6,7)) Equals to "20"
  • Actions
    • Player - Victory (Triggering player)

Checks if '6,7' of 'game"..."' is '20'.
Hence:

1-2-3-4-5-[COLOR="Red"]6-7[/COLOR]-8-9-...
[b]G-A-M-E- -[COLOR="Red"]?-?[/COLOR]-?-?-...[/b]
        ^ A space

We fill in the values up with:

1-2-3-4-5-[COLOR="Red"]6-7[/COLOR]-8-9-...
[b]G-A-M-E- -[COLOR="Red"]2-0[/COLOR]-?-?-...[/b]
        ^ A space

Remove the hyphens, you will get

12345[COLOR="Red"]67[/COLOR]89...
[b]GAME [COLOR="Red"]20[/COLOR]??...[/b]
    ^ A space

Just a few more examples.
This code:

• Trigger
  • Events
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing game as A substring
  • Conditions
    • (Substring((Entered chat string),6,9)) Equals to "blal"
  • Actions
    • Player - Victory (Triggering player)

Represents this:

1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-...
[b]G-A-M-E- -?-?-?-?-...[/b]
        ^ A space

1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-...
[b]G-A-M-E- -B-L-A-L-...[/b]
        ^ A space

1-2-3-4-5-[COLOR="Red"]6-7-8-9[/COLOR]-...
[b]G-A-M-E- -[COLOR="Red"]B-L-A-L[/COLOR]-...[/b]
        ^ A space

12345[COLOR="Red"]6789[/COLOR]...
[b]GAME [COLOR="Red"]BLAL[/COLOR]...[/b]
    ^ A space

Does that clears up anything?
No?
Please ask.

 

[TriggerHappy]

123456789
Hello TH!

SubString(2,6)

123456789
Hello TH!

 

[ShadowBlade]

Wow thanks Ryuu that helped me. So did Wolfie...
+rep to you both.

 

[Killerphill]

It is basically a portion of a string.
So

...

couldnt have asked for a better detailed description. thank you very much!