Issue with spacing...

[xboxown]

Hello guys,

I have issue when it comes to spacing when saving files to disk in AMOS. I have an array called:

LEVELGETCARD$(WIDTH, HEIGHT)="2"

When I use Open Out and Print #1 to save or even use text 32,32,_STR$ or Print _STR$ I get:

2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 --- instead of ---> 2222222222222


I tried:

For HEIGHT=0 to 49
For WIDTH=0 to 49
_GETSTR$=_GETSTR$+LEVELGETCARD$(WIDTH, HEIGHT)
...
...
Next WIDTH
Next HEIGHT

It comes out as 2 2 2 2 2 instead of 22222....then I tried:

For HEIGHT=0 to 49
For WIDTH=0 to 49
_GETSTR$=_GETSTR$+Space$(0)+LEVELGETCARD$(WIDTH, HEIGHT)
...
...
Next WIDTH
Next HEIGHT

It comes out as 2 2 2 2 instead of 22222....then I tried

For HEIGHT=0 to 49
For WIDTH=0 to 49
LEVELGETCARD$(WIDTH,HEIGHT)="2"+Space$(0)
_GETSTR$=_GETSTR$+LEVELGETCARD$(WIDTH, HEIGHT)
...
...
Next WIDTH
Next HEIGHT

It comes out as 2 2 2 2 instead of 2222....even if I print it on screen such as Print or Text 32,32 ....or Print #1, ....

What advice someone can help me?

[Samurai_Crow]

The sign is a space for positive numbers. If it were negative the minus sign would be there.

[adrazar]

It seems to work as expected if you literally initialise the array like this

For HEIGHT=0 to 49
   For WIDTH=0 to 49
      LEVELGETCARD$(WIDTH, HEIGHT)="2"
   Next WIDTH
Next HEIGHT

SamuraiCrow's theory of the origin of the extra space character is quite typical, but something makes me think it could be something else going on here...
Because it doesn't quite make sense to encode numbers as strings and then save these strings without any separating character, like space [unless all numbers are in the range 0-9].

[xboxown]

Originally Posted by adrazar

It seems to work as expected if you literally initialise the array like this

For HEIGHT=0 to 49
   For WIDTH=0 to 49
      LEVELGETCARD$(WIDTH, HEIGHT)="2"
   Next WIDTH
Next HEIGHT

SamuraiCrow's theory of the origin of the extra space character is quite typical, but something makes me think it could be something else going on here...
Because it doesn't quite make sense to encode numbers as strings and then save these strings without any separating character, like space [unless all numbers are in the range 0-9].

How should I have initialized the array then?

[adrazar]

If you converted numbers to strings with Str$(NUMBER), you could replace it with Str$(NUMBER)-" " to get rid of the whitespace.
Alternatively, if NUMBER always lies between 0-255 you could consider using Chr$(NUMBER) instead, and let the reverse operation from string to number be done with Asc.