Strings

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Mar 3 2012, 2:29 pm
(See the best response by Albro1.)
Are there ways to manipulate strings like string methods that are In java?
Note: I checked the reference but didn't see it
Mar 3 2012, 2:40 pm
Manipulate string as in? That's a very vague question.

If you're looking for functions to manipulate strings, there are a few, but DM doesn't have as much as there is in C++ or Java. A lot of them can be made yourself with the functionality of the current ones, though.
Mar 3 2012, 3:55 pm
Best response
What kind of string manipulations are you looking for?

DM allows for easy concatenation with your typical brackets([]). You need only to do this:
mob/verb/Hello_World()
    var/hello = "Hello"
    var/world = "world!"
    world << "[hello] [world]"


As for pure manipulation, you can use some of these:
copytext()
findtext()
file2text()
html_encode()
istext()
length()
lentext()
md5()
num2text()
text2ascii()
text2file()
text2num()
lowertext()
uppertext()
text2path()

I may have left some out, but those are probably a good majority of them. If you want to know what each does, refer to the DM Reference(Or F1 in Dream Maker). In the Reference, just open up the "procs" tree, and you will find all of these.