[jawsscripts] Re: determining the first, (leftMost,) character of a string?

  • From: Jackie McBride <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 21:14:44 -0700

Geoff, stringLeft.

On 3/8/09, Geoff personal <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Guys, I'm wondering which optimal function I might use to determine the
> leftMost character of a string?
>
> What I want to do, is take a numeric string, which may or may not start with
> a decimal point, which always represents a price of a product. then, if it
> does begin with a decimal point, I want to add a 0 plus the dollar character
> to it, so that jaws speaks it as xx cents, properly, which it does if the 0
> is inserted between the dollar character, and the decimal point. although it
> doesn't seem to in this outlook express program!
> but normally, if the string ends up as
>
> $.05
>
> Jaws will speak this as, "dollar. zero five."
> whereas if I make the string,
>
> $0.05
>
> then jaws seems to speak this properly as, 5 cents.
>
> so, which functions might I optimally do this with?
>
> I have looked through the string functions that I can see, and none seem to
> do this in an elegant way that I can see?
> I was hoping for something like StringFirstChar,
>
> or something like that, but I can't find anything that looks remotely like
> it could do what I want? which is simply just to check the first leftMost
> character of a string.
>
> the closest I've been able to half see which I thought with some
> monipulation, might, be able to be made to do this,
> was a function called
> stringLeft
>
> and I thought I could use it as below, because it says it returns the string
> with the number of characters listed as the second parameter in the above
> function, but, compiler complains of syntax error in Elif Condition.
> S I'm obviously using it incorrectly somehow? any clues on proper usage of
> this function greatly appreciated.
> The faulty code I've got appears below:
>
>
> if sValue == "" then
>
>
>
> ; it's blank so don't add dollar to it as it wil speak unnecessarily,
> substitute speaking the product from table instead,
>
> ; because that's what type of credit it will be.
>
>
>
> SayString (sProduct)
>
>
>
> ; now check if first char is decimal point, and if so, after it being
> extracted by below function, add it back in,
>
> ; but also add 0 to it so jaws speaks it properly.
>
> ElIf StringLeft (sValue, 1) == . then
>
> ; above line is the one compiler baulks at.
>
> sayString ("Decimal point found!"
>
>
>
> ; starts with decimal point so now add the point back in but add 0 to the
> front as well before dollar sign so it speaks properly.
>
>
>
> SayString ("$0." + sValue)
>
>
>
> else ; doesn't start with decimal so no need to fiddle with it before adding
> the dollar sign
>
>
>
> SayString ("$" + sValue)
>
>
>
> EndIf ; sValue firstChar decimal point, or string blank check.
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Geoff c.
>
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