Strings

Strings are an array of characters ending in a NULL (‘0’) character. They are used for things such as printing text, message boxes, menus and titlebars.

Strings can either be directly inserted into your code like this:

(procedure (TitleProc)
        Display("SCI Quest")
)

Or you can declare them in the script segment and use their label:

(string
        TitleString = "SCI Quest"
)

(procedure (TitleProc)
        Display(TitleString)
)

Strings can be split up onto multiple lines with the ‘+’ operator:

(procedure (TitleProc)
        Print(
                "This is a very long "+
                "string.\n"+
                "That uses three lines in this source file"
        )
)

Because strings are arrays, you can use them as arrays:

(string
        // A simple string.
        SomeString = "This is a string"
        // Numbers can be inserted into the strings.
        AnotherString = ("H" "ELL" "O" $20 "There!" 0)
        // This allocates 40 bytes of an empty string.
        StringBuffer[40]
        // This allocates 20 bytes of string. The first five bytes are filled with "Hello".
        YetAnotherString[20] = "Hello"
)

(procedure (StringProc)
        // You can make use of the array.
        // This would display "is a string"
        Display(SomeString[5])
)