BBS: Inland Empire Archive Date: 02-13-93 (12:55) Number: 368 From: RICK PEDLEY Refer#: NONE To: JEFFERY FOY Recvd: NO Subj: A file Conf: (2) Quik_Bas
On 02-11-93 Jeffery Foy wrote to Derek Lyons... JF> Btw, to keep on topic... Here's a challenge... Without using MID$, JF> LEFT$, RIGHT$, or INSTR, reverse the characters in a 10-byte string JF> such JF> that: "0123456789" becomes "9876543210". I thought it'd be easy but JF> find that it isn't... :) CLS PRINT "0123456789" FOR x = 10 TO 1 STEP -1 A$ = A$ + CHR$(SCREEN(1, x)) NEXT x ... OFFLINE 1.43 --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: The BULLpen BBS * Intel 14.4EX (613)549-5168 (1:249/140)
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