store multiple characters in quotes

kingbp

Is it possible to store multiple chracters in quotes, I noticed that in pbasic you can store a single chracter in a quote like so turns = "S", but when i try to store multiple characters in quotes I get an error is their a way that I can do something like this turns = "LUL" without getting an error.

xanatos

Depends what you have your turns var set to. Byte will store one letter. Word, two. You're looking for a string var, or an array of bytes equal to your longest string... You can find all the details in the stamp manual.

Dave

Mike Green

You could store two characters in a word, but 3 characters takes 24 bits. There's no way you could directly do something like turns = "LUL". If turns happens to be a 3 byte array, you could do something like

if (turns(0) = "L") and (turns(1) = "U") and (turns(2) = "L") then

You could use DATA and READ statements to do something like this which would be called by GOSUB Search. It returns with i set to TableSize if the command isn't found or the index of the command (starting at zero) in the table if it's found.

TableSize   CON   2
CmdTable:  DATA  "LUL", "RUL"

Search:  FOR i = 0 TO TableSize-1
   FOR j = 0 to 2
      READ CmdTable+i*3+j,temp
      if temp <> turns(j) THEN GOTO TryNext
   NEXT j
   RETURN
TryNext: NEXT i
   i = TableSize
   RETURN