A good example. And I was thinking that this "new" way of viewing strings (as a collection of chars) could come in handy when scanning/parsing strings.

By way of a simplistic example, is one wanted to code the "infamous" reverse a string routine, one could do this:

code:

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for each $char in "hello world"
 $reversed = $char + $reversed 
next

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Here's the same routine, coded with a UDF:

code:

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for each $char in CharArray("hello world")
 $reversed = $char + $reversed 
next

?"reversed=" $reversed

exit 1

Function CharArray($String)
 dim $len,$i
 $len = len($String)
 $CharArray = ""
 if $len = 0
  return
 endif
 dim $array[$len-1]
 for $i = 0 to $len-1
  $array[$i] = substr("$String",$i+1,1)
 next
 $CharArray = $array
EndFunction

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-Shawn