Substring Coma Splicing

[ColtonRex]

I think I wrote that in python and posted it in the other topic.

[pixie_dust1]

wait… what are you guys talking about? i’m not that smart in blocks and stuff.

[Epi320]

What topic?
Which one did you post it in.

@Here_to_help

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Here’s an explanation:

First, we have property “stringoftext”. This property holds the original strand of text, and is edited during the splicing period to only contain the part we haven’t worked on yet. Next, there’s “substringproperty_”. These are the properties that hold the codons that we spliced (i.e. abc or def). You will need more or less depending on how long the strings are (you won’t have to change any code based on that). Last, we see the “substring#” property. It just adds one after each splice so that we are updating the next substring_ next time, not overlaying an old one.

Now to look at the process. The first part just tells if we have more than 3 letters left. Let’s first assume that’s true. Starting out, the substring# should have a default of one, so we are setting the text for substringproperty1. We are going to get the first ones until the comma, so starting from the first letter until the letter that is before the comma (comma # - 1). Faboulous! Then in the second part, we just set the new text. This is done by deleting the text all the way including the comma, but not after that. This will make sure we can start at the first letter next time. We then adjust our substring# and broadcast to recur.

Now let’s assume we’ve done a lot, and we’re down to only two letters left. This will update the final substringproperty_ with all that is remaining. We then reset all of our properties that need to and broadcast that we’re done!

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I didn’t test this out but it should work (lol I even layed out why it should above). If you have any questions or it isn’t working, just drop a reply and I’ll help you when I’m available!

omg THANK YOU HERE TO HELP!
I’ma read it now

[pixie_dust1]

What are you gu- (brain shuts down)

[pixie_dust1]

but seriously, what is this

[Epi320]

wait a sec, I’m still trying to comprehend this.

[pixie_dust1]

me too, I literally don’t know what substrings are

[Epi320]

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This should help.

Here to help, I think I get it.

[Epi320]

OMG I FINISHED READING I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT I DIDNT SEE THIS BLOCK

omg @Here_to_help I didn’t see this block, so i kinda felt bad that I was giving y’all an impossible challenge.

It turns out, the impossible challenge was finding this block.
lol, basically, I didn’t see this block, so I was thourghly frustrated, and I made a help topic, putting this impossible problem out to the universe.

Little did I know, here to help dazzles us again.

Now, @pixie_dust1 what questions do you have on this? I will try to explain it the best I can

you know the coder is fantastic when you think this after you read it “Well, this is very simple!”

[Epi320]

bsa? Who’s that?
(yes ik this is off topic, but I’m curiose)

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BrownSnowAlien. Now let’s let this close.

(I did close it right? @Here_to_help )
Also you get an

EPI PEN OF HONOR (because I feel like giving out my 5th pen. Prob my last in a long long time)