HP Prime Graphing Calculator User Manual

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Programming

DIM

Syntax: dim (str)
Returns the number of characters in string str.
Example: dim("12345") returns 5, dim("""") and
dim("\n") return 1. (Notice the use of the two double

quotes and the escape sequence.)

STRING

Syntax: string (object);
Returns a string representation of the object. The result
varies depending on the type of object.

string(2/3); results in the string 0.666666666667
Examples:

INSTRING

Syntax: inString (str1,str2)
Returns the index of the first occurrence of str2 in str1.
Returns 0 if str2 is not present in str1. Note that the first
character in a string is position 1.
Examples:

inString("vanilla","van") returns 1.

inString ("banana","na") returns 3

inString("ab","abc") returns 0

LEFT

Syntax: left (str,n)
Return the first n characters of string str. If

or

, returns str. If n == 0 returns the empty string.

Example: left("MOMOGUMBO",3) returns "MOM"

String

Result

string(F1), when F1(X)

= COS(X)

"COS(X)"

string(L1) when L1 =

{1,2,3}

"{1,2,3}"

string(M1) when M1 =

"[[1,2,3],[4,5,6]]"

1 2 3
4 5 6

n dim str

n 0

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