I am working on my Japanese language library. I have a string stored that is '#hir su go i'. I need to be able to analyze each character in the string. I have a variable to define which character in the string I am currently reading: curchar. I want to be able to read any character in the string depending on what this variable is set at, so for now I am using:
[pre]mid(input,curchar,curchar)[/pre]
However, this always returns an empty string. I guess mid does not work with both values being the same? I thought about trying, as an alternative:
[pre]left(mid(input,curchar,curchar+1),1)[/pre]
But I am pretty sure this will cause a problem when I get to the end of the string, and curchar+1 does not exist.

Any suggestions?

You won't run into problems, I don't think. If the upper range exceeds the string boundary it probably will just return the last character.

The third parameter of mid() isn't the end coordinate, it's the length of the string taken. So to take just the n-position char (starting at 0), you'd do mid(mystring, n, 1). Thus, a loop to run through each char of a string one at a time would be:

for (position = 0; position < len(mystring); position++)

{

   curchar = mid(mystring, position, 1);

}