To Primitive : PRINT, INPUT and LINE INPUT

[stephane fonteyne]

Hi Tom & Landse,

The keywords "PRINT [USING]", "INPUT" and LINE INPUT it's
to primitive for the PowerBasic Compilers.
I will see more advanced formatted input and output routines with
more possibilities then what this current primitive keywords do

This keywords produce to much and not efficient and produce slowly
code. If I you input and output routines in QuickPak Professional
library it's very faster.

I introduce or suggest more advanced for reading en writing formatted
datatypes like the functions in C (printf(), scanf(), putc(),puts()
and getchar(), getch(), getche() like this or
two very powererd functions for formatted all the datatypes in
PowerBasic
Example: FUNCTION PBFInput() like in c scanf()
FUNCTION PBFPrint() like in c printf()

And then others that produced leas code for input and output
strings and characters

I will see here code in public domain

greetings
stephane


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[Tim Wisseman]

Do you know about any Basic string commands?
Like Str$(), VAL(), Mid$(), Left$(), Right$(), Trim$(),
InStr() and Format$()

I have never seen a print formating problem that was not very
easily solved with Basic string commands, in fact string handling
is of Basic's strongest good points when compared to other languages.

Tim


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[Tim Wisseman]

You should also read up on:
INPUT, GET, PUT and INKEY$
They will handle you file and keyboard input and output.

Tim


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