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Chapter 20: Advanced Text
§20.1. Changing texts; §20.2. Memory limitations; §20.3. Characters, words, punctuated words, unpunctuated words, lines, paragraphs; §20.4. Upper and lower case letters; §20.5. Matching and exactly matching; §20.6. Regular expression matching; §20.7. Making new text with text substitutions; §20.8. Replacements; §20.9. Summary of regular expression notation
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Chapter 19: Rulebooks |
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Chapter 21: Lists |
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Indexes of the examples |
§20.1. Changing texts
So far, we have dealt with text as something which comes in little packets: we have printed it out, read it in from the keyboard, and compared it with other text. But we have never tried to open the packets and get at the contents, letter by letter, or to make any alterations, or look for certain combinations of letters. These tricks are surprisingly seldom needed - a surprise, that is, given that everything Inform does is textual - but they are in fact open to us. For example:
will be true at, for example, 11:30 PM and 1:22 AM, but not at 3:15 PM. What happens here is that Inform expands the time of day into a text, say "11:30 PM", then extracts the first character, say "1", and tests it.
Until 2012, Inform had two kinds of text - plain "text", and "indexed text" - but there's now only "text", which has all of the abilities of both.
