Timeline for Origins of the "array like" strings in BASIC
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| Jul 7, 2020 at 14:14 | comment | added | TonyM | Yep, the ZX BASIC string slicing was much better than the LEFT$/RIGHT$/MID$ burden in other BASICs, including the otherwise-elegant BBC BASIC. a$(TO 5) is the left 5 characters, a$(7 TO) is the everything from the 7th character onwards. Simple. | |
| Jul 7, 2020 at 12:57 | comment | added | Patrick Schlüter | Thank you guys. It was my bad. Too much programming in D and I discovered the sinclair basic slicing only recently. | |
| Jul 7, 2020 at 10:48 | history | edited | occipita | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 7, 2020 at 10:46 | comment | added | occipita | @OmarL - just tried it and your memory of the syntax is correct, at least for the Spectrum version. (Have edited the example given to be correct as just verified) | |
| Jul 7, 2020 at 8:47 | comment | added | Omar and Lorraine |
At least in the 48k BASIC, string slicing involves the TO keyword. It's something like A$(10 TO 20). But I can't remember exactly. It's been a while.
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| Jul 7, 2020 at 6:57 | history | answered | Patrick Schlüter | CC BY-SA 4.0 |