Scratch

mrweston wrote:

What do the rest of you do with your strings?

We sit around and wish there were string functions! 

Actually, you can do a crude concatenation by using Lists.  Make list items with all the parts you want concatenated, then you can reference the entire array with the array name and your items will be concatenated - only there will be a space between them (bummer).

Add "Cat" to A_List
Add "Dog" to A_List
Set A_Variable to A_List

will give the variable A_Variable a value of "Cat Dog"

I think Chalkmarrow actually figured out a way to tear "space concatenated" strings apart using string comparison...only I'm not sure it worked online.

If you do it with lists, there's always a space between the both texts...

mrweston wrote:

Yeah, the space can be a deal-breaker, alas. I'm wondering why they chose to insert it in the first place, when assigning an array to a string -- are there cases in which that's really useful? Indicates that it would be an extremely trivial programming tweak to get true concat: just don't append the spaces.

Does anyone from the programming team visit the forums? Or are all these discussions passed on to them by other team members?

The space is handy if all you are trying to do is make a printer-friendly method to dump the contents of a list.    I think that was the original intent of the space; so that the list could be placed in a Say block.  And it works well for that purpose.

As for whether anybody from the programming team visits the forums...I know Jens does from time to time and he is on the programming team.    I have been forwarding Scratch and Java Player bugs to the Known Bug List but I have not been forwarding all the Forum discussions.