18ADVANCED TEXT MAGIC
Although pictures of blue skies and green fields are prettier to look at than a screen full of words, many useful programs, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Words with Friends, work with text. That’s why Small Basic provides the Text object for working with text. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to use the Text object to find the length of a string, extract a small portion of a string, and perform many other advanced string-processing tasks. You’ll also write your own string-processing subroutines and apply what you learn to create some interesting applications, like a pig latin translator and a word scramble game!
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