ObjectType:mutablestring

Description

Object Type Vitals

mutablestring
Defined By	LavishScript
Inherits	string
Reduces To	the stored text
Variable Object Type	mutablestring
Uses Sub-Types	no
C/C++ Type	utf8string *

A string, also known as text is a series of consecutive characters. Mutable indicates that the string may be modified.

Members

• string String: Retrieves the appropriate string object from this mutablestring

Methods

• Set[text]: Sets the value of the string to this new text
• Concat[text]: Concatenates the string with this new text
• ToUpper: Converts the string to upper case
• ToLower: Converts the string to lower case

Declaring string Variables

• Any string variable is a mutablestring
• declare Food string "Pizza"
• declare Word string script

Setting string Variables

• string1:Set[This is string 1]
• string2:Set[${string3}]

Comparing Strings

declare name1 string "fred"
declare name2 string "george"
if ${name1.Equal[${name2}]}
   {
    echo We're both named fred!
   }

See Also

LavishScript Object Types

Text

string - mutablestring - unistring

Numbers

byte - float - float64 - int - uint - int64

Boolean (TRUE/FALSE)

bool

Pointers

boolptr - byteptr - floatptr - float64ptr - intptr - uintptr - int64ptr - rgbptr - stringptr

Containers

objectcontainer - array - index - collection - queue - stack - set - variablescope

JSON

jsonobject - jsonarray - jsonvaluecontainer - jsonvalue

Iteration

iterator - jsoniterator

Date/Time

time

Events

anonevent - event

Other

point3f - rgb - script - binary - enumtype

File Handling

filepath - file - filelist - filelistentry

Utilities

exists - lavishscript - math - system - type - variable

Tasks

lavishmachine - Accessed via the Top-Level Object LMAC

task - tasklibrary - taskmanager - tasktype - taskpulseargs - elmactaskstate

XML

xmlnode - xmlreader