Bug with texts?

Hbkmadness

Hi,

I'd like to ask if there is a bug with the text attribute when you use the "if" statement.

Example:

I know my string is "pararampam" but I care only for the last 3 chars.

When I use "If x ends with "pam" do { blabla } else {blablabla} " It does not work properly eventhough the text is ending with "pam".

But when I use "if x IS "pararampam" do { blabla } else {blablabla} " It works fine, now the problem is that I really want to check only the last 3 chars in the text and not the whole one. So is it a bug or I don't use it properly ?

gyroscope

Hi @Hbkmadness I'm almost certain that the Windows version of GSC is the same as the Mac in this respect.... "ends with" refers to only the last character (in this case, "m")

Sorry about that; hope that helps somehow.

Hbkmadness

Ya I thought It could do this, thanks. I guess I have to think for another way.

tatiang

You can do this very easily with the Release Candidate for Mac but those features do not exist in Windows Creator. You'd have to enter each letter in a table cell and then check the table cells to determine ends of words.

Hbkmadness

Ya like working with arrays I guess. That's good idea, thanks.

tatiang

Yes, exactly like an array. The downside of tables is that the tableColCount() function applies to the entire table so if you have multiple rows of data (multiple words) there is no simple way to determine their length. In an app I built for a similar purpose I added a symbol (#) after the last letter and then used a custom loop to check for that value, which would signify the end of the word/row.