How to combine a string and a variable into one string?

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Sat, 10/08/2011 - 07:44 am

Hei,

I would like to combine a string together with a variable.
I tried it this way:

Function Test()
string wavename = “wave”
variable number = 1
string together

together = wavename + number
Print together

End

I would like the Function to print “wave1” but it does not work. How can I do this?

Cheers,

Finn
Here are two solutions.

Function Test()
    String name = "wave"
    Variable number = 1
   
    // Simple solution
    String together = name + num2str(number)
    Print together
   
    // More powerful - see documentation for sprintf
    sprintf together, "%s%d", name, number
    Print together
End


sprintf is general and powerful. In this example it substitutes the contents of name for %s. It then converts number into text and substitutes that text for %d. It stores the result in together.

See the documentation for sprintf for details.

October 8, 2011 at 09:39 am - Permalink