printer.write (string value)

hello, when i try to make a printer print a string value does it always say it's nil even when the print api shows the tekst just fine.

so how can i make a printer print a string value?

the printer isnt an api, you have to wrap it first

local printer = peripheral.wrap("side")

now any printer functions work
e.g.

local printer = peripheral.wrap("right")
printer.write("ALL THE THINGS!")

Please post the full code and the full error message.

got it to work thanks to pixeltoats. now a different question, how can i make the computer count the amount of letters in a received rednet message?

thanks alot

some more questions i came up with (i never like to make about a billion topics for each question i have to ask).

how can i make the computer change a string value? example: the value is "this is a string value'' and the script edit it in such a way that each word is on a different line.

is there a way to turn a file into a string value? example: there is a file on the computer called ''text'' which contains text which then could be opened into a program to make the value "textfile" the text in the the file "text".

Check out the tutorials section.

i found how to make the script read/write files and how to enter a string on different lines.
but can't find how to edit a string value. what i want to do is make a script that automatically creates a new line every X amount of letters from a string value.