Question about applying UCASE$ to INSTR commands

[Sir Laguna]

...my question is, is it possible? I've tried various ways, but it ends up cancelling out the INSTR command because of the parentheses. Any help is appreciated.

[Neo]

How do you mean?

This?:

Code:

a$ = UCASE$(a$)
b% = INSTR(a$, c$)

Please explain some more.

[Sir Laguna]

I should have explained a bit better: sorry. I mean like this:

IF INSTR(UCASE$(hello$), "GOOD DAY") > 0 THEN
PRINT "A good day to you too, sir."
END IF

However, that doesn't work because it invalidates the IF statement.

I also find it impossible to do IF algorithms that contain INSTR commands... is there a reason for this?

[Plasma]

That code works fine...I've never had any problems using INSTR with IF either.

[KiZ]

Yea, that code should work perfectly....
Are you sure that you got the syntax right when you wrote it in your program? Quite often a problem is forgetting to put in one of the required values in the syntax of a line.

[Neo]

It should work, and it works