GETNPUT.BAS 1/3

 BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 02-15-93 (00:43)             Number: 381
From: LEE HERRON                   Refer#: NONE
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Subj: GETNPUT.BAS 1/3                Conf: (2) Quik_Bas
Hello All!

A little bit of code I have found useful over the months (I
haven't been doing this long)

'***************************************************************************
'*  GETNPUT.BAS (from Lee Herron's kindergarden scrapbook)                 *
'*                                                                         *
'*  This is a simple routine, nasty and not well commented, but one that   *
'*  gets the job done.  GETNPUT covers all the input needs I have run      *
'*  accross from time to time.  It will limit the input to numbers, all    *
'*  UPPER case, 1st letter uppercase, NO spaces, convert spaces to under   *
'*  scores for records, use defaults, add MACROs, and format input.        *
'*                                                                         *
'*  Like I said,  it is nasty, I would like to see a clean version but I   *
'*  have never been interested it doing it myself, if you do, please send  *
'*  me a copy at 1:3612/130fido.                                           *
'*                                                                         *
'*  ====================================================================== *
'*  GETNPUT (p$, d$, st$, u#, n#, a#)                                      *
'*  d$ = the pattern used, ie: "00/00/00"                                  *
'*  p$ = Default                                                           *
'* st$ = blank input charactor ie: 00/00/00 would be: "0"                  *
'*  u# = 1st charactor uppercase                                           *
'*  n# = No spaces                                                         *
'*  a# = All uppercase/numbers only  (1=All uppercase 2=Only numbers)      *
'***************************************************************************
DECLARE SUB getinput (p$, d$, st$, u#, n#, a#)
DEFINT A-Z

CLS
COLOR 15, 1
                          ' ---[* Creating a date default
p$ = LEFT$(DATE$, 2) + "/" + MID$(DATE$, 4, 2) + "/" + RIGHT$(DATE$, 2)
d$ = "  /  /   ": st$ = " "

                          ' ---[* Massive bordom!
ban$ = "#$%&'()*+,-./0123456^]mhkqqLaatBCDEF‰ĦIv” Ħš”P}"
ban1$ = ban$ + "—˜T}›İި¨[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnŠ}zr"
FOR c = 1 TO LEN(ban1$)
   wrk$ = MID$(ban1$, c, 1)
   unenc$ = unenc$ + CHR$(ASC(wrk$) - c - 2)
NEXT c
                          ' ---[* A few simple samples
PRINT unenc$: LOCATE 6
COLOR 15, 0: PRINT "This is an example of using the "
PRINT "formated command with a default: ";
COLOR 15, 4: getinput p$, d$, st$, 0, 0, 0:
COLOR 15, 1: PRINT "You entered: "; i$

COLOR 15, 0
p$ = "": d$ = SPACE$(10): st$ = ""
PRINT : PRINT "This is an example of using the "
PRINT "Upper Case 1st letter option: ";
COLOR 15, 4: getinput p$, d$, st$, 1, 0, 0:
COLOR 15, 1: PRINT "You entered: "; i$

COLOR , 0: PRINT : PRINT "This is an example of using the Number only,"
PRINT "No space option w/pattern: ";
COLOR 15, 4: getinput "", "(   )   -    ", st$, 1, 1, 2:
COLOR 15, 1: PRINT "You entered: "; i$

                          ' ---[* More Massive bordom!
endb1$ = "&VzrqtzG.]yxz‡Z~mz'JK]+\r|???qtuA6]Q&8>7"
Encd$ = endb1$ + "B+P`.7IAF<HNJD>=:9)2<F@D@B@CFD>6"
e = 5
FOR c = 1 TO LEN(Encd$)
   wrk$ = MID$(Encd$, c, 1)
   e = e + 1
   IF e = 24 THEN e = 5:
   UNEncd$ = UNEncd$ + CHR$(ASC(wrk$) - e)
NEXT c

'------------------8<---------- SNIP --------------8<-----------------------

'END PART I

--- GoldED 2.40
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