powercon5 wrote:

I do not get what you mean do you have a link I can see

OmnipotentPotato wrote:

powercon5 wrote:

I do not get what you mean do you have a link I can see

Here is a project with it, but it is not really the one that I am doing: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/20167108/

As you can see if you type in something like “heLLO tHIS proGraM doEs NoT worK wITh CAPital letTTers” it glitches out all weird.

All that I need is a way to turn a variable like “Hello” into an all lowercase string like “hello.” Does that make more sense?

OmnipotentPotato wrote:

powercon5 wrote:

I do not get what you mean do you have a link I can see

Here is a project with it, but it is not really the one that I am doing: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/20167108/

As you can see if you type in something like “heLLO tHIS proGraM doEs NoT worK wITh CAPital letTTers” it glitches out all weird.

All that I need is a way to turn a variable like “Hello” into an all lowercase string like “hello.” Does that make more sense?

powercon5 wrote:

OmnipotentPotato wrote:

powercon5 wrote:

I do not get what you mean do you have a link I can see

Here is a project with it, but it is not really the one that I am doing: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/20167108/

As you can see if you type in something like “heLLO tHIS proGraM doEs NoT worK wITh CAPital letTTers” it glitches out all weird.

All that I need is a way to turn a variable like “Hello” into an all lowercase string like “hello.” Does that make more sense?

ok so it not working because all the costumes in sprite 1 are lowercase (there names) so you could creat 2 of each costume (the letters)and call one
lower and upper case

like 1 a and 2 A

list: letters
a
b
c
d
e
f
etc

define convert (string) to lowercase // run without screen refresh
set [lowercase v] to []
set [position v] to [1]
repeat (length of (string))
if <[letters v] contains (letter (position) of (string))> // character is a letter
set [letter v] to [0]
repeat until <(item (letter) of [letters v]) = (letter (position) of (string))> // = block is not case sensitive
change [letter v] by (1)
end
set [lowercase v] to (join (lowercase) (item (letter) of [letters v]))
else // character is not a letter, no need to case-change
set [lowercase v] to (join (lowercase) (letter (position) of [string v]))
end
change [position v] by (1)
end

Greatguy123 wrote:

The problem is that in Scratch A = a is true. So you usually can't sense if a letter is capital or not. I would just type the message out into another variable using all lowercase. Then just use that.

OmnipotentPotato wrote:

I'm making a project where a program takes a
string from the user and prints it. But, if the user types something like “Derp” it does not work but with “derp” it would work. It is because I am having the program switch to costumes of each letter and I only have lowercase letters.

What I want to do is make it so that I can turn a string into all lowercase. Thanks.

define Lowercase(String)
set [i v] to [0]
set [Out v] to [0]
repeat (length of (String))
    change [i v] by (1)
    if <[Caps v] contains (letter (i) of (String))> then
        set [i2 v] to [0]
        repeat until <(item (i2) of [Caps v]) = (letter (i) of (String))>
            change [i2 v] by (1)
        end
        set [Out v] to (join (Out) (letter (i2) of (NoCaps))
    else
        set [Out v] to (join (Out) (letter (i) of (String))
    end
end

hppavilion wrote:

OmnipotentPotato wrote:

I'm making a project where a program takes a
string from the user and prints it. But, if the user types something like “Derp” it does not work but with “derp” it would work. It is because I am having the program switch to costumes of each letter and I only have lowercase letters.

What I want to do is make it so that I can turn a string into all lowercase. Thanks.

Probably the best way would be something like this:
First, you should probably have two read-only indexes (variables and lists that are just there because it's more efficient to keep the data there than using a million if-thens.) One variable and one list
Let's call them NoCaps (the variable) and Caps (the list), The value of Caps is “ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ”, where each letter is a different item (this could be done with a variable, which I would prefer, but it's so much easier like this.) NoCaps is “abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz”, just one string. The rest of the variables actually change. The remaining variables will be “Out,” the output, and “i(x),” a number of variables called i, i2, i3, etc. which are index numbers. You'll basically need this script:

define Lowercase(String)
set [i v] to [0]
set [Out v] to []
repeat (length of (String))
    change [i v] by (1)
    if <[Caps v] contains (letter (i) of (String))> then
        set [i2 v] to [0]
        repeat until <(item (i2) of [Caps v]) = (letter (i) of (String))>
            change [i2 v] by (1)
        end
        set [Out v] to (join (Out) (letter (i2) of (NoCaps))
    else
        set [Out v] to (join (Out) (letter (i) of (String))
    end
end

define Lowercase [string1]
set [Lowercase alphabet v] to [abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz]
set [Output v] to []
set [Tick v] to [0]
repeat (length of (string1)
change [Tick v] by [1]
set [Lettering v] to [1]
set [IsSet v] to [0]
repeat (length of (Lowercase alphabet)
if <(letter (Lettering) of (Lowercase alphabet)) = (letter (Tick) of (string1)>
set [Output v] to (join (Output) (letter (Lettering) of (Lowercase alphabet)
set [IsSet v] to [1]
change [Lettering v] by [1]
else
change [Lettering v] by [1]
if <(IsSet) = [0]>
set [Output v] to (join (Output) (letter (Tick) of (string1))) 

convert [EXAMPLE] into lowercase

Mr_PenguinAlex wrote:

I have the same problem.
They should add a block like this:

convert [EXAMPLE] into lowercase

define convert (string) into lowercase
set [lowercase letters v] to [abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz]
set [i v] to [0]
set [return v] to []
repeat (length of (string))
change [i v] by (1)
set [i2 v] to [0]
repeat until <(letter (i2) of (lowercase letters)) = (letter (i) of (string))>
change [i2 v] by (1)
end
set [return v] to (join (return)(letter (i2) of (lowercase letters)))
end