Re: Multi-Tasking

 BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 03-03-92 (23:58)             Number: 162
From: KEVIN NEWELL                 Refer#: NONE
  To: TRENT SHIRLEY                 Recvd: NO  
Subj: Re: Multi-Tasking              Conf: (11) Modula-2

Hello Trent!

In a msg of <29 Feb 92>, Trent Shirley writes to Matt Hart:

 TS> Back to Quick Basic though.  Im writing a program that allows the user
 TS> to enter a line of text data, and storing that data in a $ variable.
 TS> Funny thing is, if the user enters a , the entire line aborts with the
 TS> message Redo from start. It was my impression that characters assigned
 TS> to a string variable were ignored as to any special purpose that
 TS> character normally had.  Any ideas on this?

It probally is not the best way, but why not use the INKEY$??

STORE$=""  'First "zero" out your variable
DO
    A$ = INKEY$ ' Get the keyboard input
    IF A$ = CHR$(13) THEN          ' Test for Return
        EXIT DO                    ' if so exit loop
    ELSE
        STORE$ = STORE$ + A$       ' if not, add the keypress to variable
        PRINT A$;                  ' and echo the keypress to the screen
    END IF
LOOP

LOOP

Although untested, (I'm a little rusty so kludgy also!) it should work.

Kevin

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