Working with strings

[bsi]

I have some problems working with strings. I have read the manual and I have seen that Game-Editor provides some functions to be used with strings. However, I cannot understand how to perform certain operations. In particular:

1) How to convert an integer into a string. Game-Editor provides the function for string-to-integer (atoi) but not the reverse (or at least I have not found it).

2) I have two variables declared string st1 and st2. I want to assign st2 a substring of st1 starting at position m and lenght n. From what I read substrings of controlled lenght can be copied into another string but only starting at the beginning (strncpy).

Thanks in advance.

[skydereign]

You can use sprintf to convert most variable types into a string. In your case you want %d for the format. The following will convert integer into the string.

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sprintf(string, "%d", integer);

You will have to use strncpy, but since a string is a character array, you can choose the starting point of the string.

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strncpy(str2, &str1[5], 5);

That will copy 5 characters starting from the 6th character.