Specific digit in integer or text

Hi,

Someone knows how I can get the value of a specific digit in an integer or string ?

(for exemple the first one, the last one, or even the 3rd one)

Thanks ;)

For an integer..

digit = mid( str( theInteger ), xpos, 1 ) )

For a string...

character = mid( theString, xpos, 1 )

xpos = the position of the digit / character you want to retrieve. Remember 0 is the very first character, 1 the second and so on.

Explained here -

System Expressions

About half way down the page under TEXT

I red this, but I'm not english and I didn't understood what was the "count" parameter (which is, in fact, totally obvious...).

I thought "mid" was for counting the number of characters in a string from a point. ^^"

Thanks for answering my stupid question. Now I presume I understand how Left and Right expressions works.

mid returns the character in theString, at the position you specify (0 for first character etc), and count = how many characters you want returned, in this case 1.

If you have a string "Hello world" and want the "w", then you'd do..

theString = "Hello world"

character = mid( theString, 6, 1 )

If you wanted "Hell" returned (who would! ;) then..

characters = mid( theString, 0, 4 )

Hope that clears it up for you.

Yup, thanks.

Don't worry, it was clear with your first post and everything works fine ;)

ahh hahah seems I misread! Glad you "got it" ;p

To get the nth digit (0-based) of a number you just have to do:

(floor(x/(10^n))%10

The third digit of 123456
=(floor ( 123456/(10^2) ) %10)
= floor (123456/100) %10)
= floor (1234.56) % 10)
= 1234 % 10
= 4

mid is easier to remember for us non-mathy people ;p but nice example!