Get Text Character from String

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- Heartlessentity
- - Joined 13 Sep, 2010
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- 19 Sep, 2010
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Is it possible to take a text object and pick the individual characters from it?

For example, Text = "Lorem Ipsum..."

Text.GetChar(1) = "L"

Text.GetChar(2) = "o"

Text.GetChar(3) = "r"

Text.GetChar(4) = "e"

Text.GetChar(5) = "m"

I wish to have a separate app allow the user to input information and have it generate a keycode based on that input.
- newt
- - Joined 12 Nov, 2008
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I don't think there's a way to get a single character from a string, but I'd be willing to bet you can with Python.
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- Davioware
- - Joined 25 Sep, 2008
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- 19 Sep, 2010
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You can do it with these system expressions:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/c ... sions#Text

This is the one you want specifically:

Mid(string, index, N)

Returns the N characters after index in string.
- newt
- - Joined 12 Nov, 2008
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Well then that should be reworded shouldn't it?

Character, not characters.

Still don't see exactly how that would work tho....

mid(string,index,last.index)?

Or is N the number of characters you want returned?