Reversing Order of Characters in String

Eggplant Functional
#1

Do forgive, I must be blind if this is actually in the documentation. I am extracting an item from a CSV file - a string to be precise. When it comes into eggPlant, it looks as so:

“LORD!”

I want to try and reverse the order of characters to that it looks like this:

“!DROL”

Is there anyway this might be possible? I attempted using the reverse order command but I’m hitting walls there.

Any help welcome!

#2

One of several possibilities:

 repeat with each character of myvalue
      put it before reversed
end repeat
put reversed
#3

You can also do this with the unknown trick of using a reverse range of characters:

put chars 99..1 of "Geronimo!" into reversed
put reversed -- !ominoreG

If your text might be more than 99 characters long, then use a larger number or you’ll only get the first 99 characters reversed.

#4

Thank you both for your replies! They were helpful! I do have another question though, I have a string that is a date. The format is YYYYMMDD with no slashes or periods to separate year, month, and date. Is there any sort of way I could do string parsing to insert?

#5

Try this:

set myDate to "YYYYMMDD"
put "-" after chars (6,4) of myDate
put myDate

That will result in: YYYY-MM-DD. You will need to use the reverse order (6,4) as shown to get the result you want, because the insertions are done in the order given.

#6

Well, if you know that that’s the format and it’s consistent, then you could say:

put 20020318 into theText
put the first 4 characters of theText into theYear
put characters 5 to 6 of theText into theMonth
put the last 2 characters of theText into theDay
put ((theMonth,theDay,theYear) joined by "/") as date into theDate
put theDate
put the day of theDate