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Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard

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On 16-Jun-2012, Frank de Bruijn <zuiderduin@hotmail.com> wrote:

> In article <a40bpnF5stU1@mid.individual.net>,
>    David Holden <SpamBin@apdl.co.uk> wrote:
> > On 15-Jun-2012, Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > > In case it was missed, note the terminator looked for (13) and the
> > > terminator set in the array (0) are not the same.
>
> > Looked for by what? Just about everything except BBC Basic recognises
> > 0 as a terminator. Even the BBC Basic GET$# does,
>
> In which version of BBC Basic? Certainly not in anything up to 1.48.

Well, from personal experience I know it's true but to quote from the GET$#
entry in the BBC Basic Refernce Manual;

"A string of characters is read until a linefeed (ASCII 10) a carriage
return (ASCII 13), null character (ASCII 0) or the end of the file is
encountered or else the maximum of 255 characters is reached."

Though I'm not sure why you feel the need to bring this up. The whole point
of the excercise was to bypass BPUT# and GET$# because some of the enties
might be longer than 255 characters. The only reason BPUT# and GET$# were
mentioned was as a better alternative to PRINT# and INPUT#. The code you
quoted was an alternative for strings longer than 255 characters so it
wouldn't be used with GET$# anyway.

-- 
David Holden  -  APDL  -  <http://www.apdl.co.uk>

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BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard Michael <michaelremerton@gmail.com> - 2012-06-04 03:19 -0700
  Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard "David Holden" <SpamBin@apdl.co.uk> - 2012-06-04 13:37 +0000
    Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard Gavin Wraith <gavin@wra1th.plus.com> - 2012-06-04 15:49 +0100
      Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard Michael <michaelremerton@gmail.com> - 2012-06-04 17:20 -0700
        Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard "David Holden" <SpamBin@apdl.co.uk> - 2012-06-05 06:37 +0000
          Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard spampling <spam.pling@btinternet.com> - 2012-06-05 10:13 +0100
            Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2012-06-05 12:06 +0200
              off-topic -  was Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard spampling <spam.pling@btinternet.com> - 2012-06-05 16:25 +0100
          Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-06-15 08:37 +0200
            Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard "David Holden" <SpamBin@apdl.co.uk> - 2012-06-15 08:58 +0000
              Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-06-15 17:37 +0200
                Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2012-06-15 18:34 +0200
              Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard Frank de Bruijn <zuiderduin@hotmail.com> - 2012-06-16 08:25 +0200
                Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard "David Holden" <SpamBin@apdl.co.uk> - 2012-06-16 07:57 +0000
                Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> - 2012-06-16 11:00 +0100
                Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard Michael <michaelremerton@gmail.com> - 2012-08-06 01:28 -0700
                Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard Frank de Bruijn <zuiderduin@hotmail.com> - 2012-06-16 12:05 +0200
        Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard Richard Russell <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2012-06-07 06:29 -0700
      Re: BBC BASIC, Long Strings, And BeagleBoard jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk (Jonathan Graham Harston) - 2012-06-05 20:59 +0100

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