Data Sheet

dScript

dScript User Manual v2.15

String variables

A string variable is used to hold ASCII character strings. The length of the string variable may

be up to the lesser of 65535 bytes or the remaining memory. The size of a string variable is

declared by placing the size in square brackets immediately after the name.

string myStringName[100]

declares a string called myStringName which is can hold up to 100 characters.

You can have any number of string variables up to the limit of the on-board RAM memory.

Strings can be named as you choose, there are no built in limits to the length of the name so

be descriptive. string names are case sensitive so:

string myStringname[100]

string myStringName[100]

are two different variables.

String variable names are not loaded into the module. All variables are compiled to an index

code, so long variable names neither consume valuable memory space on the module or slow

down program execution.

String parameters

There are two parameters of a string available.

string s1[100]

var Length

var Size

s1 = "Hello World"

Length = s1.Length

Size = s1.Size

Length will have the length of the string in s1, in this case it is 11

Size will have the original declared size of s1, 100 in this case.