question about concatenation

[Bojangles]

I have two values and 2 string$ variables I need to concatenate. It doesn't like it. I have year day line$ and run$ and I need then as 1 value or string. I tried let lot$ = year + day + line$ + run$ but no dice. Any way to join these items as 1?

[{Nathan}]

thats kinda confusing, but i might know wut u wanna do. if some of thes little things you are tying to add are integers, then just use MK... uhh... i dunno wut the exact thing is, but it starts with mk. you con convert integers, singles, doubles to string. hope that helps!!!

[Bojangles]

2 are values 2 are string but I want to end up with 1 printable string. Here's the example. year = 4 day = 242 line$ = 26 run$ = 1 Year and day are calculated, line and run are entered. I need 1 printable string out of that , that is 4242261.

[{Nathan}]

just do it like this

PRINT Varible1, Varible2

ect
easy, eh?

[Anonymous]

Er... no.

The way Nathan1993 suggested will have 4 or more spaces between the variables.

Here's the way to do it:

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lot$ = LTRIM$(STR$(year)) + LTRIM$(STR$(day)) + line$ + run$
PRINT lot$

STR$ converts a number variable (integer, long, single, double) to a string. If the number is positive, it will have one space in front. That's why I use LTRIM$ as well. It removes spaces at the front of a string.

Hope it helped... again


And Nathan1993:

then just use MK... uhh... i dunno wut the exact thing is, but it starts with mk.

You must mean MKI$, MKL$, MKS$ and MKD$. But these are not used for converting numbers to numerical strings. They are for converting numbers to strings bitwise. So if you have a number 666 and you make a string out of it using MKI$, you'll get CHR$(&H9A) + CHR$(02).

So, use STR$. Then the number 666 will just become " 666".

[Bojangles]

Thanks again. That's why I come to the pros. I was offline due to the Hurricane. We took quite a hit and doubt we could survive another. If Ivan comes, I may not be back at all.

[Anonymous]

No problem

Hurricanes are bad. I hope you'll survive any hurricane that passes by!