String manipulation

[Nicholas Graham]

I'm writing a program that requires some string manipulations. Let's say
I have a string

s='x'

Now, the ascii code for 'x' is 0x78. I want to be able to perform
operations on this number, and print the character corresponding to the
results of the operation. For example, the pseudo-code looks like:

-read in string s from external file (for simplicity, we'll keep s='x')

-determine the code for s (should be 0x78 or 120 in base 10), store it in
variable c

-add a literal to c (let's say c=c+1)

-find out which character corresponds to the new code c=0x79

-store the character in a new string s2

At the end of this, I want s2='y'

Any suggestions?

NG

[vincent wehren]

Re: String manipulation

"Nicholas Graham" <nsgraham@ece.u alberta.ca> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:Pine.LNX.4 .44.05041322372 50.11173-100000@feynman. ece.ualberta.ca ...
|
| I'm writing a program that requires some string manipulations. Let's say
| I have a string
|
| s='x'
|
| Now, the ascii code for 'x' is 0x78. I want to be able to perform
| operations on this number, and print the character corresponding to the
| results of the operation. For example, the pseudo-code looks like:
|
| -read in string s from external file (for simplicity, we'll keep s='x')
|
| -determine the code for s (should be 0x78 or 120 in base 10), store it in
| variable c
|
| -add a literal to c (let's say c=c+1)
|
| -find out which character corresponds to the new code c=0x79
|
| -store the character in a new string s2
|
| At the end of this, I want s2='y'
|
| Any suggestions?

Take a look at the built-in functions ord() and chr() -- Chapter 2.1 of the
manual.
[color=blue][color=green]
>> s = 'x'
>> c = ord(s)
>> c[/color][/color]
120[color=blue][color=green]
>> c+=1
>> s2 = chr(c)
>> s2[/color][/color]
'y'

--

Vincent Wehren

|
| NG
|

[Terry Reedy]

Re: String manipulation


"vincent wehren" <vincent@visual trans.de> wrote in message
news:d3ktct$h5m $1@news2.zwoll1 .ov.home.nl...[color=blue]
> "Nicholas Graham"
> | Any suggestions?[/color]
[color=blue]
> Take a look at the built-in functions ord() and chr()
> -- Chapter 2.1 of the manual.[/color]

And more generally, read all of Chap.2 of the Library Reference on builtin
functions and types. Later chapters, most of them, are 'look up when you
need to' type stuff, but C.2 is core material that everyone should read
after the tutorial.

Terry J. Reedy