String arrays

String arrays are arrays used for text manipulation. Every character of a string is saved to an individual array element. Once the end of the string is reached, an array element is set to 0 to mark that the string is over.

Declaring a string array

As an array, they are declared just the same:

Writing to a string array

There are a couple ways to write to a string array.

1. Use the string command. There is a convenient string command for writing to string arrays! | string command component | description | example | |—————————-|————-|———| | | the string array being written to | names_array | | | the dictionary entry being changed to a string | "apple",hobo.name, etc. | | parse$ | write the current value of [parse$](parsing/parse$/) | N/A | | | maximum number of letters to write to the string | 10, 8, 255 | | x | gets set to the length of the string written to | N/A |
2. Use the text to command.

Now what?

Now that you have the string array, you can use it with any string routine, like StringCopy, StringPrint, or whatever.

Keep in mind

Be careful to not erase the last element of a string array- the one that equals 0- as that will result in a lot of trouble when printing it.