#include <string>
std::string theStr = "Here is a string";
std::string theNewStr;
//don't need to assign blank string, already blank on create
for (size_t theCount = 0; theCount < theStr.Size(); theCount++ )
{
theNewStr += theStr[theCount];
}
//or you could just do
//theNewStr=theStr;
//instead of all the above
in autoit, it's just as simple to copy a string. to access a piece of a string (including a character, which is still a string) you use StringMid() which is a holdover from Microsoft BASIC-80 and now Visual BASIC (and all BASICs). you can stil do
theNewStr = theStr
or you can do it the hard way:
For $theCount = 1 to StringLen($theStr)
theNewStr &= StringMid($theStr, $theCount, 1)
Next
;Arrays and strings are 1-based (well arrays some of the time unfortunately).
& is concatenation in autoit. stringmid extracts a chunk of a string. it MIGHT also allow you to do the reverse: replace a chunk of a string with something else. but I would do unit testing with that. I think that works in BASIC, but not sure about autoit.