left$(variable$)

[The]

Hey,
Ok, I'm not a COMPLETE newbie, but I'm not a guru, either. What I want to do is have a for-next loop, and every time the loop goes around, it takes the "x"th letter from a string variable. For example, if the string variable was "Hello", the loop would go around 5 times, and msg$(1)
would be "H", msg$(2) would be "e", msg$(3) would be "l" and so on. I tried using the left$("hello&quot, but for msg$(2) it gives me "He" instead of just "e". Does anyone know the command I would use to get a single letter, instead of a letter and all the letters before it? Thanks.

 

[tsh73]

To get i-th letter:
mid$("Hello",i,1)

 

[CubeE101]

This...

A$ = "hello"
REDIM MSG$(LEN(A$))
FOR I = 1 TO LEN(A$)
  MSG$(I) = MID$(A$,I,1)
NEXT

...Should get you what you want...

Also...

When:
A$ = "Hello"
...
LEN(A$) = 5
LEFT$(A$,2) = "He"
LEFT$(A$,LEN(A$)-2) = "Hel"
RIGHT$(A$,2) = "lo"
RIGHT$(A$,LEN(A$)-2) = "llo"
MID$(A$,2,3) = "ell"
INSTR(A$,"e&quot = 2
INSTR(A$,"z&quot = 0

When:
A$ = " Hello "
...
LTRIM$(A$) = "Hello "
RTRIM$(A$) = " Hello"
LTRIM$(RTRIM$(A$)) = "Hello"

Good Luck... ;-)

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