Variable strings

I am working on a calculator game in its BASIC code (although, like most things I’ve tried, it will probably fail)
It get this to work well, though, I need to be able to have a variable choose which string to use

More specifically, I need to get numbers from a list and display that string. For example:
L1 ------> Display
6 ------> Str6
1 ------> Str1
2 ------> Str2
4 ------> Str4
3 ------> Str3

Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be a function like StrX on the calculators. Any advice would be much appreciated.

now that i think about it, i should have probably put this in the sticky post above sorry

Just use IF statements.
Maybe get the number off the list and store it on a variable: A

or something along those lines.

i was thinking that, but it would take hundreds of lines of code to do that for every row on the calculator. but its probably the best answer

Does TI-BASIC not have array functionality? Then you could use any number of loops to control the output.


Short of that, anything like a switch structure?

[Edit] It looks like matrices and lists, which the calculator has native support for, can be used much like arrays. You just need to experiment to see whether or not a matrix or list can be used to store strings.

A matrix is a 2 dimensional array. You can display, define, a matrix in the matrix editor. The TI83+ and TI84 have 10 matrix variables, [A] thru [J]. You can define a matrix directly in an expression. A matrix, depending on available memory, can have up to 99 rows and columns. However, you can store only REAL numbers in the matrices.

Just write the code out, its slow but it's a lot faster than anything else.