It doesn't work. When I type the STO char in Y= it does nothing. It won't let me type it

Nope, unfortunately there's no way at all to check unless you (1) have an ASM sub or (2) already have the chars stored in a string, like with the Y= trick.

It would worlk, but there are over 9000 different possible tokens you can have on the calculator, so it would be incredibly inefficient, slow, and large.  Maybe if you tell us exactly what you want to accomplish we can see if there is a better way to accomplish what you are trying to do?

I was looking for that! Thanks, Finale. I thought it was on TIBD though but oh well, at least it was found.

From what I understand he is trying to get the user to input something, a list, a string, a number, a matrix, or whatever, and then he stores it into u (for a reason I don't understand because it acts like a string except it outputs a number...) and then runs u through a series of tests to test what it is (a list, matrix, string, number, etc.).

Are you talking about the link that Finale gave? You could do checks for all of them but string and number and if it gets that far then you do that check to decide which it is.

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on December 15, 2010, 04:06:18 pm

It doesn't work. When I type the STO char in Y= it does nothing. It won't let me type it

1: type "-> on the homescreen, press enter, then quit (when it gives an error)
2: go to Y= and push [2nd][Enter].

that should do it!

but c'mon guys there has to be another way... like:

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:If inString("every_single_token_except_"_and_->",sub(Str1,1,1))
:Else
...
:End

I could use XTRACHAR for that... I keep it on-calc at all times

But it'll run horribly slow.

Ah that works! Too bad I can't display it with Output or something...

That can work inside Output(?

You seem to always find a solution to everything I post. Could you actually post your entire source code on how to display STO character inside a BASIC program on the home screen?

EDIT: Actually that works, thanks. I have bad memories about Equ>String, though (See the TI-OS glitches section)