Currently, string manipulation blacks are very limited but have complicated workarounds so I suggest blocks such as letters through of

But it's the complicated workarounds that make us think, and isn't that what Scratch is all about? Problem solving and mind training

turkey3 wrote:

But it's the complicated workarounds that make us think, and isn't that what Scratch is all about? Problem solving and mind training

I completely agree with that in principle, however if you want to manipulate a megabyte of string data, having to do it character by character and the memory implications of rebuilding strings in this way is both very slow and inefficient. It could also be argued there are more important aspects of your programs that you want to spend the effort problem solving than string manipulation? - I for one would say we need more string manipulation blocks (substring and indexof)… pretty please

There's some who are capable of workarounds, but there's the majority who are not yet that advanced. Besides, Scratch needs to improve.

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This would be great, especially with cloud data holding strings soon.
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Maybe one of these or custom reporters?

480X360 when I don't even need it…

A block like this could be pretty nice to have :

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A reported that returns the number 3 if you do this:

Find String “am” in “I am griffpatch”

And a reporter that return “am” if you do this:

Substring “I am griffpatch” from “3” to “4”

Interesting ideas. I know lots of Scratch Modifications include these new blocks because they weren't in Scratch, but one of the biggest problems is people make the mistake of replacing instead of adding. I know in Bingo 2.0, LS97 replaced (letter () of ) with (letters () - () of ) and I was trying to make a script and couldn't because I only needed one letter and I was putting things like (letters (1) - (1) of ) which comes up as an error. So basically, the moral of the story is be careful what you wish for and/or be careful when modifying Scratch.

griffpatch wrote:

A reported that returns the number 3 if you do this:

Find String “am” in “I am griffpatch”

And a reporter that return “am” if you do this:

Substring “I am griffpatch” from “3” to “4”

The second you have there is like the first one I have above.

thebriculator wrote:

griffpatch wrote:

A reported that returns the number 3 if you do this:

Find String “am” in “I am griffpatch”

And a reporter that return “am” if you do this:

Substring “I am griffpatch” from “3” to “4”

The second you have there is like the first one I have above.

I think griffpatch's version seems a little more professional/technical, which can be both good or bad.

curiouscrab wrote:

thebriculator wrote:

griffpatch wrote:

A reported that returns the number 3 if you do this:

Find String “am” in “I am griffpatch”

And a reporter that return “am” if you do this:

Substring “I am griffpatch” from “3” to “4”

The second you have there is like the first one I have above.

I think griffpatch's version seems a little more professional/technical, which can be both good or bad.

You are quite right, and perhaps yours is worded better for use in scratch… I wanted to just show two blocks that both add functionality that is missing from Scratch, but that work well together and in themselves are enough to do most string related tasks (except perhaps adding a ‘to uppercase’ and ‘to lowercase’?