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'           (c) 1997,1998 MCS Electronics
'                   STRINGS.BAS
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$large
$ramstart = &H8000                      'address decoder enables RAM chip at this address
$ramsize = &H1000                       'I have only 4KB RAM chip

Dim S As Xram String * 50               'dimension string
Dim Z As Xram String * 20               'note that the length must be specified
Dim A As Xram Word
Dim St As Byte

A = 1000

S = "Hello world"                       'assign a constant to a string
Print S                                 'show it
Z = "!z"                                'assign string
Print Z

S = Z + " add this too " + Str(a) + Left(s , 4)'concatenate a few strings
Print S

S = "Test"
S = Right(s , 2) : Print S              'return rightportion of string

S = "40000"
A = Val(s)                              'convert string to integer
Print A

S = "1FFF"
A = Hexval(s)                           'convert hexadecimal string
Print A

S = Hex(a)                              'convert back
Print S

A = A + 1                               'add 1 to it
S = Str(a)                              'convert integer to string
Print S

S = "A"
A = Asc(s)                              'get ASCII value
Print A

S = ""
S = Chr(a)                              'convert ascii to string
Print S


A = Len(s)                              'get length of string
Print A

S = "This is a test"
Z = Left(s , 4) : Print Z               'return left part of string

Z = Right(s , 4) : Print Z              'return right part of string

St = 6
Z = Mid(s , St , 2) : Print Z           'return mid of string
Z = Mid(s , St ) : Print Z              'no length specified

Z = "12345"
Mid(s , 1 , 2) = Z                      'change part of string
Print S

Mid(s , 1) = Z
Print S


Z = String(10 , 65)                     'make a string with a length of 10 and use character A
Print Z

Z = Space(5) : Print "{" ; Z ; "}"       'make a string with spaces


Input "Name " , S                       'ask for string
Print "Hello " ; S                      'print it

Restore Company                         'restore label with data
Read S : Print S                        'read & print
Read S : Print S                        'again

If "abc" <> "ABC" Then                  'compare constants
   Print "Not Equal"
End If

Do
  Input "String 1" , S                  'ask for string
  Input "String 2" , Z                  'agian

  If S <> Z Then                        'compare strings
     Print "<>"
  Elseif S = Z Then
     Print "="
  End If
Loop Until S = Z

S = "This is a case TEST"
Z = Lcase(s) : Print Z                  'convert to lower case
Z = Ucase(s) : Print Z                  'convert to upper case
End



Company:                                'company data
Data "MCS" , "Electronics"