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Whilst string handling is limited within the PICBasic product, a short time searching on this forum will reveal a dozen different ways of manipulating strings. If you pruchased the MeLabs product, you did so in the knowledge of what it was and wasn't capable of doing. If subsequently you now need to manipulate strings, then this forum has shown you how, making you a happy bunny in that you don't have to spend money in buying a competitors product.

This forum is not run or owned by MeLabs. It is a "self-help" forum. That means it is the membership that helps each other. Since practically all of the questions are "How do I do this or that?" (which is a user or applications issue and not something a manufacturer would reply on) rather than "Your product is broke" which is not something that really applies here in the same way as it does with some competitors offerings. MeLabs will always reply to you personally by email if you care to contact them should you have a "broken product" issue. They have mentioned in the past (again if you care to do a search) that it is not their policy to tell people what they might or might-not be developing. The great majority of commercial enterprises follow the same policy.

Nobody is being duped. You KNOW UP-FRONT what you are buying. The specifications and features are CRYSTAL CLEAR, you can even look at the manual on-line, and play with it at compilespot.com. The product works just as advertised. If there is any part of the MeLabs product that does not work as described, then be constructive and let's hear it, because that's something every single user of the MeLabs products (including me) want's to be alterted about. But don't moan that your car hasn't got Air-Con AFTER you've bought it. If they decide to bring out an upgrade kit in the future, then that's a bonus. If they don't, and you really need that Air-Con, then I'm sure you'll chose a diffent manufacturer next time around.