Re: Need Help with Basic Please?

From	"Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.basic.misc
Subject	Re: Need Help with Basic Please?
Date	2012-07-28 21:31 +0000
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Helmut_Meukel wrote:

> Cyber Spaceman wrote:
>>
>> I am new to programming. I found this basic code for a database on the
>> internet. How do you take code for a database in your just basic v1.01
>> compiler and make it work as a real database on your computer where you
>> can add data and delete data from it? When the database code runs
>> inside my compiler it doesn't allow me to add data or delete data.
>>
> [...]
>>
>> [init]
>>     'predefine item array
>>     dim items$(1)
>>
>>     'get database contents
>>     gosub [OpenDB]
>>     gosub [ReadDB]
>>     gosub [CloseDB]
>>
>> [MainGUI]
>>     'Form created with the help of Freeform 3 v01-28-07
>>     'Generated on Jun 19, 2007 at 22:50:13
>>
> [code deleted]
>
> First of all, Basic isn't Basic.
>
> Which Basic are *you* using?
> Is the code you found the very same Basic?
>
> I don't recognize the Basic dialect. Sorry.

As Mr. Russell obliquely pointed out, it's Liberty Basic. You can recognize 
it by the fact that labels are wrapped in square brackets:
  [label]
...rather than the more common form:
  label:

The three free compilers that I am aware of for LB are Just BASIC, which is 
the "official" free compiler, and what the OP is using:
  http://justbasic.com/
...and the GNU/Liberty Basic Compiler Collection, which hasn't been updated 
in over 10 years and possibly won't compile the OP's code:
  http://lbpp.sourceforge.net/
...and Mr. Russell's Liberty Basic Booster, which is IMO probably the best 
choice for any LB programmer:
  http://lbbooster.com/

-- 
I clench my teeth and realize, my world is so near it's demise.
A dying sun in a poisonous sky, stinging my eyes.

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