[basic] compare string

how to compare 2 string that showed the result is almost true ...

string 1 = Bill Gates

string 2 = Bill

result = almost true

is there a good way to do this ????

You'd need to specify a bit more for what you consider 'almost true'. There are a bunch of string expressions, but from this example it's not clear what you want. Do you mean X letters are the same, X words, the words at the beginning, any words are the same...?

Or do you mean something like soundex? Im not so shure this can be done in c2.

I'd go with blackhornet's way and go compare the first word.

take a look in the manual for find()

something like   find(varwithtext, "stringtolookfor")

if stringtolookfor does not occur in varwithtext, it should get you a -1

For every occurence, it will add 1 to the result.

I think this is the implementation of javascripts IndexOf

variable = "long text with some stuff"

find(variable, "stuff")

should give you 0

variable = "long stuffed text with some stuff"

find(variable, "stuff")

should give you 1