Recognizing the length of inputted text?

[malinryden]

Okay… let’s assume that we have an input text variable, like a password.

Is there any way for the game to recognize how many letters are in said variable so it can be used in if statements later? For example, to produce a warning if the password is too short?

[catorrina]

This article shows you how to interact wtih strings (including measure the length)

Now you can extract letters/numerals in ChoiceScript

In the latest version of ChoiceScript up on github, you can extract the characters (letters/numerals) out of a variable, like this: *temp word "xyzzy" *temp first_letter word#1 *temp second_letter word#2 The first letter of the word "${word}" is ${first_letter} and the second letter of the word is ${second_letter}. (Programmers will note that the character index is 1-based, not 0-based.) You can count the number of characters in a word like this: *temp word "plough" *temp word_length length(…

So after you have the *input_text command, you’d just set up an *if statement

*if (length(word) < 10)
     Your password is too short! 
*else
    (Blah)```
If I'm interpreting it correctly. 

(Edit: Because I accidentally posted the thing before I finished)