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Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string

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          Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> wrote:

>Kevin Wells wrote:
>> I already go through it one character at a time looking for commas and
>> speech marks, so that looks like the way to go, I take it that the
>> A$=GETS# would be the bit that needs changing.
>
>A few thoughts.
>
>If the file is not large, you could use BGET and read the file
>byte-by-byte, but many would suggest this is not very efficient.

I think BGET would be the easiest solution, but having never used it
before I would appreciate an example that will show me how to ignore the
first two lines, then when it finds a speech mark end that line, and go
as far as line 12.
>
>If you are using strings, for elegance sake, I hope you are not checking
>characters using MID$ or its ilk. INSTR is very fast, and you can set up
>indices to control the searches through the string. I have a FN that
>will deliver a field from a string, taking account of quotes, if that
>would be useful.

Thanks that would be very useful, a I'm using MID$ at the moment, I'm
only using strings as that is what I've always done, and occasionally a
line will be to long, so I'm not against using other means, as I'm
putting the information straight into a text icon.
>
>If you load the whole file into a block of memory, then using a
>FOR...NEXT loop and ?index% is very much the quickest way to check
>character by character, but may well not be as quick as INSTR with a
>string, depending on the data.
>
>Steve
>


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        Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> - 2012-08-04 18:56 +0100
          Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> - 2012-08-04 19:56 +0100
            Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> - 2012-08-08 15:04 +0100
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