Strings to Chars

hey im trying to figure out if theres a way to separate a string into individual characters... I'm trying to write a hangman program so if anyone has any ideas?

sub("???",begin,length
the "???" is the string, it can be typed out or it can be str1,str2 etc
begin is the character to start on ex 2 will start on the second character
length is how many characters it goes
example:
sub("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz",3,3
will give u "cde" in ans

Thanks, i never new about that sub() thing, Anyone know how to combine strings?

combining strings is easy as +
"???"+"???" will give you "??????"
str1+str2 gives you string 1 with string 2 attached at the end
str1+"???" gives you string with 3 ?s at the end

Sweet that makes my life a whole lot easier lol

just for your reference, wht attme100 described is called Concatenation, and it's in pretty much every language out there.

Also, if you wanted, you could do str3=str1+str2. That would let you concatenate the 2 strings, into str3, while leaving 1 and 2 unchanged (and thus still usable later in the program, if you needed to).

...no, str3=str1 + str2 does not combine string 1 and 2 into 3
what happens with this line is it tests str1+str2 and checks if it matches up to str3
ex: str1 is abc, str2 is def
if str3 is abcdef, the line str3=str1+str2 will give you a 1 (true)
if str3 does not equal abcdef, it will give you a 0 (false)
if the = is just your representation of the store arrow im sorry

if you are writing a hangman program this command could also be useful:
instring(string,string to look for,(optional starting point)
for example
instring("abcdc","c"
will give you 3 as "c" is the third letter in the first string
you can alter it with an added command at the end like so
instring("abcdc","c",4
so that it starts looking for "c" at the 4th letter
the line above will return a 5 in ans

yeah, I meant -> not =. I've gotten used to other languages that use = as assignment at == to check

I just learned how to use the TI's language correctly (as in today), and I think what really held me back was what you just described. I've worked with ActionScript and Blitz in the past, so learning that -> is = really threw me a curveball.

thanks this stuff really helps, im gonna take a break from ti programming tho, im trying to learn C++