Re: A file

 BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 02-13-93 (14:52)             Number: 327
From: DICK DENNISON                Refer#: NONE
  To: JEFFERY FOY                   Recvd: NO  
Subj: Re: A file                     Conf: (2) Quik_Bas

JF> Btw, to keep on topic... Here's a challenge... Without using MID$,
JF> LEFT$, RIGHT$, or INSTR, reverse the characters in a 10-byte string su
JF> that:  "0123456789" becomes "9876543210".  I thought it'd be easy but
JF> find that it isn't... :)

DEFINT A-Z
CLS
a$ = "0123456789"
PRINT a$
y = LEN(a$)
Segment% = VARSEG(a$)
offset% = SADD(a$) + y
def seg = Segment%
FOR x = 1 TO LEN(a$)
   PRINT CHR$(PEEK(offset% - x));
NEXT x
Def Seg


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