Re: TIB: Checking if strings exists


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Re: TIB: Checking if strings exists




---Audun Rundberg <srundber@powertech.no> wrote:
>
> 
> Is there a way to check the existence of a string on the TI-83? I
know there isn't a "CheckString" function, but is there a way to get
around this?
> 
> My problem is that my program quits if a string does not exist when
I use a String3+String4->String3 to update the string.
> 
> Audun Rundberg,
> 

You could put a dummy string at the beginning of the program.
In the first line do something like

:" "->string1

Then to test if anything had changed to the string

:If string1==" "
:Then
:goto notchanged
:else
:goto itchanged
:end


==
Garth Johnson
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