string_copy(str,index,count)

count = The amount of characters from index that you want the new string to consist of.

This string function returns a string from string starting at position index, and ending at position count. So basically, if you typed in:

Then it would return the string "ABCDEFG", and assign it to the variable text. This is similar to the string_char_at function, except it can return more than one character in a string at a time, hence making it useful for many things, such as: making a chatbot "read" words, finding a whole word in a string, storing values to a string and then recalling them, or even another method of making a dialogue script, as shown in the example below...

//Declare all variables to be used

var text,new_text,position;

//Initialize all variables to be used

//This variable, "text", will be the string you want to have typed

text = "Insert message here";

//The new string that will hold the value of the typed string

new_text = "";

//Scroll through the string of the variable "text"

for(position = 1; position <= string_length(text); position += 1;)

{

//Set the variable "new_text" to include all characters in "text" up until "position"

new_text = string_copy(text,1,position);

//Draw "new_text" to the screen

draw_text(0,0,new_text);

//Refresh the screen with the drawn text

screen_refresh();

//Pause for 50 milleseconds so the typing effect is visible

sleep(50);

}