Strange String Glitch #2

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Hmm, yes, the strange here is made out of strange.

Strange String Glitch #2

mathsman502 03 Sep 2020 19:28

Ok, so a week or so ago, I made a program that would prompt a string, using the Input command, and then put it into a message for the user to see:

PROGRAM:HMMYES
ClrHome
Input "WORD:",Str1
ClrHome
"Hmm, yes, the "+Str1+"here is made out of "+Str1+"."-->Str2
Output(1,1,Str2

I figured out that any string I inputted into the program, even if it had double quotes (") in the middle, would show up in the final result.
For example, if I put in just " for Str1, it would output:

Hmm, yes, the " here is made out of ".

I did some experimentation and figured out that this worked with any program, and changed what the Input command was followed by, and found that as long as you are prompting a string with the Input command, you can put double quotes into it.
This could mean a whole world of new things that could happen with strings containing double quotes, and although there are still some [obvious] limitations, we now know that Input, and (to an extent) Disp and Output( are able to do this. I hope what I found will benefit the TI-BASIC community.

Re: Strange String Glitch #2

Trenly 04 Sep 2020 00:06

I don’t think this is a glitch; Its long been established that TI-Basic doesn’t function like most other languages, and a lot of that is due to its strict typing and tokenization of commands. The quotes inside of a string are not tokenized, and so are rendered as literal text, as opposed to being considered a program token and ending a string. It may be unique behavior, but in many languages there is an escape chatacter for putting quotation marks into a string.

Re: Strange String Glitch #2

mathsman502 04 Sep 2020 01:32

Oh, thanks, I didn't know that. I guess I got excited. But in any case, it's still kind of cool.