letters () to () of () block

MushroomMan99

I am suggesting a block like this

(letters (1) to (3) of [world])

IR_pickle

Good idea! Definitely could come in handy for a word game or something.

TheHockeyist

Indifferent.

Blueinkproductions

+1

Deerleg

Yes! Though I think there's a workaround.

MushroomMan99

If there is a workaround please can you tell me it

Deerleg

Join letter one to letter two and letter three and so on.
(Scratchblocks will not cooperate with me today.)

Zro716

it's not that hard to workaround

define letters (a) thru (b) of [string]
set [return v] to []
set [letter v] to (a)
repeat (((b) - (a)) + (1))
  set [return v] to (join (return)(letter (letter) of (string)))
  change [letter v] by (1)
end

but I support anyways

edit: fixed

Last edited by Zro716 (Aug. 4, 2014 13:48:56)

epicsandwich123

support.

by the way thanks for supporting my topic

Thepuzzlegame

Support

MushroomMan99

Zro716 wrote:

it's not that hard to workaround

define letters (a) thru (b) of [string]
set [return v] to []
set [letter v] to (a)
repeat (((b) - (a)) + (1))
  set [return v] to (letter (letter) of (string))
  change [letter v] by (1)
end

but I support anyways

Thanks. That helps

lalala3

TheHockeyist wrote:
Indifferent.

Then don't post.

lalala3

Zro716 wrote:

it's not that hard to workaround

define letters (a) thru (b) of [string]
set [return v] to []
set [letter v] to (a)
repeat (((b) - (a)) + (1))
  set [return v] to (join (return) (letter (letter) of (string))) //Fixed
  change [letter v] by (1)
end

but I support anyways

Last edited by lalala3 (Aug. 3, 2014 19:23:51)

MushroomMan99

lalala3 wrote:

Zro716 wrote:

it's not that hard to workaround

define letters (a) thru (b) of [string]
set [return v] to []
set [letter v] to (a)
repeat (((b) - (a)) + (1))
  set [return v] to (join (return) [letter (letter) of (string)]) //Fixed
  change [letter v] by (1)
end

but I support anyways

How do you make a reporter out of this. What's the workaround for

say (letters (1) to (3) of [world]) for (2) secs

lalala3

MushroomMan99 wrote:
lalala3 wrote:
Zro716 wrote:
it's not that hard to workaround
define letters (a) thru (b) of [string]
set [return v] to []
set [letter v] to (a)
repeat (((b) - (a)) + (1))
  set [return v] to (join (return) [letter (letter) of (string)]) //Fixed
  change [letter v] by (1)
end
but I support anyways
How do you make a reporter out of this. What's the workaround for
say (letters (1) to (3) of [world]) for (2) secs

letters (1) to (3) of [world]
say (return) for (2) secs

Honestly, though, that's why we need custom reporter blocks in general.

Last edited by lalala3 (Aug. 3, 2014 19:32:19)

MushroomMan99

lalala3 wrote:
MushroomMan99 wrote:
lalala3 wrote:
Zro716 wrote:
it's not that hard to workaround
define letters (a) thru (b) of [string]
set [return v] to []
set [letter v] to (a)
repeat (((b) - (a)) + (1))
  set [return v] to (join (return) [letter (letter) of (string)]) //Fixed
  change [letter v] by (1)
end
but I support anyways
How do you make a reporter out of this. What's the workaround for
say (letters (1) to (3) of [world]) for (2) secs
letters (1) to (3) of [world]
say (return) for (2) secs
Honestly, though, that's why we need custom reporter blocks in general.

Thanks. I used this in my project http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/25277971/

Paddle2See

lalala3 wrote:
TheHockeyist wrote:
Indifferent.
Then don't post.

I get a bit annoyed when I see really short responses to suggestions. Simply saying you support or don't (or are indifferent - as in this case) is not really a discussion of the merits of the suggestion. Please take the time to support your opinions with some arguments

As for the suggestion: I like to do text manipulation projects at times and I would love to have this block. Sure, there are ways to work around it - but they are not very clean. However, I also recognize that Scratch is intended to be simple to learn - and one way to keep it simple is to limit the number of blocks. So there have to be some very compelling benefits before a new block is added to the pallet.

stickfiregames

Support since other programming languages can do this. Also the workaround is very slow as I noticed when I used it to make a cloud encoder.

lalala3

stickfiregames wrote:
Support since other programming languages can do this. Also the workaround is very slow as I noticed when I used it to make a cloud encoder.

Even with the “no screen refresh” thing disabled? Wow.

astro-mechanic

Ah yes, slicing. Unfortunate for the undefined behaviors here, such as invalid indexes. Will the starting index be inclusive and the ending index be exclusive, as in Python, such that end - start = length? Or will both be inclusive?

A text reverse block would go well with this.

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