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Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string

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In message <52b806d0dcchrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net>
          Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> wrote:

>In article <d5c1f8b752.Kevin@talktalk.net>,
>   Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> wrote:
>> On my Lcheck application the Euro Millions feed one of the lines is
>> over 256 characters long and breaks the application.
>
>> What is the best way in BASIC for strings over 256 characters?
>
>There are libraries available, but if you are doing it yourself, in
>essence you need to DIM a block of memory of suitable length, and
>then access the data using the $indirection operator. If you need
>more details give a shout.
>

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.


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Over 256 Character BASIC string Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> - 2012-07-31 16:48 +0100
  Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-07-31 19:22 +0100
    Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string "David Holden" <SpamBin@apdl.co.uk> - 2012-08-01 07:27 +0000
      Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-08-01 10:52 +0100
    Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> - 2012-08-01 19:17 +0100
      Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk - 2012-08-01 20:41 -0700
      Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-08-02 10:39 +0100
        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
              Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk (Jonathan Graham Harston) - 2012-08-08 23:15 +0100
                Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> - 2012-08-09 15:14 +0100
      Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string Gavin Wraith <gavin@wra1th.plus.com> - 2012-08-02 18:35 +0100
        Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> - 2012-08-04 18:58 +0100
      Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> - 2012-08-03 10:37 +0100
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        Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string "Ste (news)" <steve@revi11.plus.com> - 2012-08-10 14:23 +0100
          Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> - 2012-08-13 19:19 +0100
  Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2012-07-31 22:20 +0100
  Re: Over 256 Character BASIC string Duncan Moore <duncan.moore@gmx.com> - 2012-08-03 02:11 -0700

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