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Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string

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          Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> wrote:

> >> What is the best way in BASIC for strings over 256 characters?

> Yes please, the trouble is I don't know how long the line will be, as
> what the application does is download the latest Euro Millions results
> that are a csv file, and display the latest 11 draws one line at a time.
> 
> Every so often the Euro Millions have a super duper millionaire draws
> where they draw many £1 Million winners and last Friday's they had 100
> which gives that line 1033 characters long.

If you use RiscLua instead of Basic you can stop worrying about 
line lengths. Presuming you have downloaded the csv data to a file
and that you have set a variable x to hold the file's pathname
on your disc then

  for line in io.lines (x) do f (line) end

lets you apply a procedure f to each line of the file in turn,
where "line" means a string of characters terminated by a newline,
i.e. one record in a csv file. Breaking the line up into fields
separated by commas (that do not appear inside quoted strings, 
of course) is easy, too, if you use the lpeg library. 
      
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Gavin Wraith (gavin@wra1th.plus.com)
Home page: http://www.wra1th.plus.com/

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