Topic: String Handlers

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7 The string operation SUBSTRING(Quote, Start, Number) returns a string from Quote
beginning at position Start that is Number characters long. The first character in Quote is in
position 1.

Write pseudocode statements to:

• store the string "Learning Never Exhausts The Mind" in Quote
• extract and display the words "The Mind" from the string
• output the original string in lower case.

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11 The variables P and Q are used to store data in a program. P stores a string. Q stores a character.

(a) Write pseudocode statements to declare the variables P and Q, store "The world" in P
and store 'W' in Q
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(b) Write a pseudocode algorithm to:

• convert P to upper case
• find the position of Q in the string P (the first character in this string is in position 1)
• store the position of Q in the variable Position

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(c) Give the value of Position after the algorithm has been executed with the data in
question 11(a).

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8 The function LENGTH(Phrase) calculates the length of a string Phrase

(a) Write the pseudocode statements to:

• store the string "The beginning is the most important part" in Phrase
• calculate and output the length of the string
• output the string in upper case.

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(b) Write the output your pseudocode should produce.

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10 A function LENGTH(X) finds the length of a string X and a function SUBSTRING(X,Y,Z) finds a
substring of X starting at position Y and Z characters long. The first character in the string is
position 1.

(a) Show the value of the variable after each pseudocode statement has been executed.

01 P ← "Computer Science" .........................................................................................

02 Q ← LENGTH(P) ............................................................................................................

03 R ← SUBSTRING(P,10,7) ...........................................................................................

04 S ← LENGTH(R) ............................................................................................................

05 T ← SUBSTRING(R,1,3) .............................................................................................
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(b) Write a pseudocode statement to extract the word Computer from P and store it in the
variable F.
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Specimen paper 2A
1 The variables X, Y and Z are used to store data in a program:

 X stores a string
 Y stores a position in the string (e.g. 2)
 Z stores the number of characters in the string.

(a) Write pseudocode statements to declare the variables X, Y and Z.

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(b) The function LENGTH(X) finds the length of a string X.

The function SUBSTRING(X,Y,Z) finds a substring of X starting at position Y

and Z
characters long. The first character in X is in position 1.

Write pseudocode statements to:

 store the string "Programming is fun" in X
 find the length of the string and output it
 extract the word fun from the string and output it.

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