[Gambas-user] Using strings like objects

[Fabien Bodard]

Le dim. 23 sept. 2018 09:28, Benoît Minisini <g4mba5 at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Hi,
>
> Since last commit, I allowed strings to be used like objects.
>
> This is not syntactic sugar, as it is entirely implemented in the
> interpreter.
>
> So now, if S is a string, you can do the following:
>
> S[N] to get the N-th character of the string. Beware! Contrary to string
> subroutines, the first character position is zero. It's like using the
> string as a character array.
>
> S[N, L] is an equivalent of Mid$(S, N + 1, L).
>
> S.Len returns the length of the string.
>
> S[] only deals with byte position, it can't handle UTF-8.
>
> That new syntax is slower than calling directly Mid$() and Len(), but I
> don't think we will notice the difference.
>
> Maybe I will add a S.Max property to returns the length minus one, but I
> don't think I will implement all the string routines as object methods.
>
> Tell me what you think about that.
>
I think it's coool but I want all the string functions 😊

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