Help with Left$ command

[Stephen]

I've been trying to program Hangman in QBasic, and I can't get the Left$ command to work.

Here's the algorithm I'm trying to use to split the string's letters up into different variables:

numl=len(string$)
for i = 1 to numl
letter=left$(string$, i)
next i

The error it gives me says "Data type conflict error"

[RyanKelly]

How has the array "letter" been declared.

The left$ function returns a string typed variable.

In this statement:
t$=left$(work$,3)

If work$= "This is a test." , then t$ will be set to "Thi".

For your project, you'd probably want to use the mid$ function.

dim letter( 1 to 30) as string *1

numl=len(string$)
for i = 1 to numl
letter(i)=mid$(string$, i,1)
next i

[Stephen]

thanks, I figured it out on my own to use the Mid$ function, but I thought I'd post back here to see if anybody helped me.

[Mac]

Hey, great thread

1) Question was asked in an intelligent, complete way.

2) Answer was excellent

3) OP came back and said "Thanks"

This is the way all threads should be. But I dream on.

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