How do I set a certain character in a string?

[winter sphinx]

I’m generating a random integer, then trying to grab the character at that random integer in the string. However, this doesn’t work. I used subscripts and those did not work because you can’t “set” those, only “extract”.

[pure anvil]

split your string at "" and set the nth element to whatever then join your list with ""

[winter sphinx]

nth element?

n being the number?

ah

[winter sphinx]

wait so what does splitting "" mean? does that mean splitting every character into a list?

[pure anvil]

yes

breaks your string into each induvidual character

[winter sphinx]

tried doing that and I got this error

[cedar comet]

{_steal::%{_goal}%}

[winter sphinx]

what no

I need to get the #th element of something

%{_goal}% doesn't exist in {_steal::*}

[cedar comet]

Wait why is it in your line then

[cedar comet]

You can use the index

[winter sphinx]

like?

[cedar comet]

Like this

[pure anvil]

this is the same thing

[pure anvil]

you forgot a space after the variable

[cedar comet]

Wait the syntax is n th not nth?

[winter sphinx]

it doesn't change anything

the syntax is the same

[pure anvil]

i thought it was

[winter sphinx]

and using a normal number (like 1) doesn't work

[pure anvil]

thats weird

[pure anvil]

use this

[cedar comet]

I assume you set {_steal::*} to yourString split by “”?

[winter sphinx]

        set {_goal} th element of {_steal::*} to "&a&l█"```

ignore the indentation

[cedar comet]

That should give you {_steal::1}, …, {_steal::n}

[winter sphinx]

ahhh!!!

i get it

index is used in variables

using split

how does the join syntax work?
set {_steal} to {_steal::*} join at ""

i don't understand it