On Aug 16, 2006, at 10:13 PM, Brian Heibert wrote:
I have a thought,
pict1 = VAL(pushbutton1.caption)
That didn't work above
Is there a way to find out how many characters (includng spaces)
are in a string of text or in my case a caption?
Brian
Brian
READ THE DOCUMENTATION on what VAL does. The online language
reference is your friend.
VAL converts a string into a number if it can do so sensibly
Then test it for yourself with
dim i as integer
dim s as string
i = val("123")
and note that i ends up having the numeric value 123
Now look at what you did and see why that made no sense
Do this BEFORE posting here with your questions
I realize you have been working with REALbasic for a while but you
still seen to try the first thing that pops up.
When it fails you post to the list. Please DON'T do that.
While there are lots of helpful people, this is not a private
tutoring list.
Try EVERYTHING you can think of to make it work and understand WHY
the things that work do work and why the things that do not work don't.
As for your question try "len" instead of "val"
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