Hi, I am new here

[Christian Damhus]

Hey there,

I am a Newby and I got a problem.

I wrote this little program :

start:
while text$="" : text$=inkey$ : wend
if text$=chr$(13) then goto ende
print text$;
text$=""
goto start

ende:
print "You wrote : ", text$
end

My problem is that I'd like to write and print out a whole sentence into
the variable text$. But all the variable continues is a strange symbol.
How can I save more than one symbol into the variable text$? By the way I am
using PB/DOS 2.10f .

Thanks for your help. I hope my English is good enough to make clear what I want.

Greets
Chris


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[keith shelton]

Try this

while a$=""
a$=inkey$
if a$<>chr$(13) then test$=test$+a$
if a$=chr$(13) goto exitloop
wend
exitloop:
print test$
end

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[George Bleck]

Disregarding "proper coding methods" I have modified your code
to reflect what I think you are asking...

start:
	while PressedKey$="" : PressedKey$=inkey$ : wend
	if PressedKey$=chr$(13) then goto ende
	print PressedKey$;
	text$=text$ & PressedKey$
	PressedKey$ = ""
	goto start

ende:
	print "You wrote : ", text$
	end

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Every day I try to learn one thing new,
but new things to learn are increasing exponentially.
At this rate I’m becoming an idiot faster and faster !!!
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George W. Bleck
Lead Computer Systems Engineer
KeySpan Corporation
My Email

[This message has been edited by George Bleck (edited November 23, 2003).]

[keith shelton]

Sorry I screwed up on that one, try this one instead.
Never write code while playing counter strike.

start:
while a$="": a$=inkey$: wend
if a$=chr$(13) then continue
test$=test$+a$
goto start
continue:

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[Kev Peel]

Been a while since I used DOS, but why not do it like this...

  line input a$
  print "You entered: " a$

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Kev Peel
http://www.kgpsoftware.com

[Mel Bishop]

Originally posted by Kev Peel:
...but why not do it like this...

Line input will work but maybe he needs his program to do other
processing between key strokes.


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[Don Schullian]

Hi Christian & welcome.

As you can see there are more many ways to do the same thing.
Don't be discouraged by all the different answers it's just a
thing programmers have been doing since day 1.

You pick the one you like and then THAT one becomes the right one!

start:
  c$ = ""
  do
    c$ = inkey$
  loop until len(c$) > 0
  if c$ = chr$(13) then goto ende
  Text$ = Text$ + C$
  locate 1, 1 
  print text$;
goto start

ende:
  locate 1, 2
  print "You wrote : ", text$
end

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C'ya
Don
[email protected]

[Christian Damhus]

Hey there,

thanks for your support. Don's version is working perfectly.

Btw : Would you suggest to upgrade to PB/DOS 3.5 or should I better
purchase PB/CC ? I heard it's easier for a dos programmer (and
bloody beginner like me) to start with PB/CC instead to start
with PB/Win. Is that true?

Greets
Chris

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[Davide Vecchi]

Hi Christian, and welcome!

Would you suggest to upgrade to PB/DOS 3.5 or should I better purchase PB/CC ?

IMO it mainly depends on whether you want your console-mode programs to run under Windows on under DOS.
If you want them to run under Windows, you better go for PB/CC which allows you to use a lot of Windows features and integrates a whole lot better with Windows.
About PB/DOS, if you upgrade to PB/DOS 3.5 you'll get many more powerful features than PB/DOS 2 and you will be able to write very powerful DOS programs, but under Windows they'll need to run in a DOS box.

I heard it's easier for a dos programmer (and bloody beginner like me) to start with PB/CC instead to start with PB/Win. Is that true?

IMO it's certainly true because with PB/Win you need to learn some Windows GUI programming, which a DOS programmer doesn't necessarily already know. Of course you wouldn't do much GUI programming with PB/CC, so if your goal is learning Windows GUI programming maybe you'd better go for PB/Win.

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Davide Vecchi
[email protected]

[Christian Damhus]

Hi Davide,

thanks for your answer. I just ordered PB/WIN. It's the best choice.
If it's too difficult for me, I can still go back to PB/DOS...

Greets
Chris


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[Don Schullian]

Of course!!!!

Originally posted by Christian Damhus:
Hey there,

thanks for your support. Don's version is working perfectly.

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C'ya
Don
[email protected]