Learn how to utilize characters in your text with the len and mid$ command.

Learn how to utilize characters in your text with the len and mid$ command.

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                                    sync on : sync rate 60 `Set up our refresh rate.

string$="-1.31"        `This is the string we'll be testing for.

do `Start our loop

set cursor 0,0 `Set our cursor

`Before we use the mid$ string, we'll want to find out how long our string is.
`We do this by using the 'len' command, and then inputting our string.
print "There are ";len(string$); " characters in this string."

`We now will use the 'mid$' command. This command can be very useful for us.
`In this tutorial, you'll see how the characters are picked up.
`Basically, you input the string you'd like to test for and you put in the character
`you'd like to find. This can be very helpful for picking out test.
print "first character ";mid$(string$,1)
print "second ";mid$(string$,2)
print "third ";mid$(string$,3)
print "fourth ";mid$(string$,4)
print "fifth ";mid$(string$,5)
`Now we just print our string so you can see how it all fits into place.
print "This is our full string ";string$




sync `refresh the screen
loop `Loop our program