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Re: Applesoft syntax

From	Jerry <awanderin@yahoo.ca>
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Subject	Re: Applesoft syntax
Date	2012-02-10 01:43 -0700
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Joshua Bell <inexorabletash@gmail.com> writes:

> On Feb 9, 12:41 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
>>
>> The only things in Applesoft program that don't get tokenized are
>> strings (and possibly DATA statements--I've never looked ;-).
>
> From my testing, DATA statements do get tokenized. Quoting is optional
> but needed to avoid reserved word handling. So IIRC (no emulator
> handy) this:
>
> 10 DATA a,b,c : FOR I = 1 TO 3 : READ A$: PRINT A$ : NEXT
>
> will print:
>
> a
> b
> c
>
> ... but you almost always want to quote strings to avoid reserved word
> tokenization.
>
> And don't forget REM statements, which are not tokenized, including
> any colons!

Nope, DATA statements are not tokenized.  They are copied as-is until
the next colon that is not part of a token.

Example:

]10datatext,hgr,lomem::text
]list

 10  DATA text,hgr,lomem:: TEXT




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Jerry    awanderin at yahoo dot ca

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