[Gambas-user] Using strings like objects

[Fabien Bodard]

And sugards ;-)

S[5,3] = "toto"

s.replace("&1", "toto")
i = s.left(3)

etc.

s[s.instr("test"), s.len]
=
Mid(s, instr(s, "test"),len(s))







Le dim. 23 sept. 2018 à 11:27, Me <adamnt42 at gmail.com> a écrit :

> On Sun, 23 Sep 2018 09:27:13 +0200
> Benoît Minisini <g4mba5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > Benoît Minisini
> >
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>
> I think that is wonderful! Only one thing, we often have to search
> backwards in strings for various reasons, so
> S.Reverse would be a great help.
>
> regards
> b
>
>
> --
> Me <adamnt42 at gmail.com>
>
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>


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Fabien Bodard
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