Remove last character from a string

[tamation]

I'm really struggling with setting typing limitations right now. Ideally I'd like to have it so that once the player's keyboard_string exceeds a width of 248 pixels, they can't type anything else to add to the string until some characters have been removed.

I couldn't figure out how to stop keyboard_string from receiving inputs, so I tried to set a limit for the string width instead, and when it is exceeded have it automatically remove the most recent character you typed.

This is what I have so far:

currentstring = string_width(keyboard_string);

lastchar = string_pos(keyboard_lastchar,keyboard_string);

if currentstring > 248 { string_delete(keyboard_string,lastchar,1) }

I've been trying a few different set-ups with it, but I've had absolutely no luck so far. Any help or tips on a better system of limiting the width of keyboard_string would be greatly appreciated.

 

[FrostyCat]

string_delete() returns a copy of the string that has the specified portion removed, it doesn't operate in-place.

and the function will return a new string without that section in it.

if (currentstring > 248) {
  keyboard_string = string_delete(keyboard_string, lastchar, 1);
}

 

[tamation]

string_delete() returns a copy of the string that has the specified portion removed, it doesn't operate in-place.

if (currentstring > 248) {
  keyboard_string = string_delete(keyboard_string, lastchar, 1);
}

Ahhh, my bad, sorry. That was the issue with removing characters, thank you. Is there a better way of locating the last character in a string? The lastchar variable checks keyboard_lastchar, which has a habit of deleting other occurrences of the character in the string, even when they're not at the end.

 

[FrostyCat]

With the first character of a string at position 1, the last character is at position string_length().

Either do this:

keyboard_string = string_delete(keyboard_string, string_length(keyboard_string), 1);

Or this:

keyboard_string = string_copy(keyboard_string, 1, string_length(keyboard_string)-1);

 

[tamation]

With the first character of a string at position 1, the last character is at position string_length().

Either do this:

keyboard_string = string_delete(keyboard_string, string_length(keyboard_string), 1);

Or this:

keyboard_string = string_copy(keyboard_string, 1, string_length(keyboard_string)-1);

Thank you so much!