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

  • From: "Geoff personal" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:21:37 +1100

But Jackie, waaaaah! somehow it doesn't work!
can you see where my code is faulty?
I cannot!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 3:14 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: determining the first, (leftMost,) character of a 
string?


> 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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