Pbcc double coma

[Jack Jasperson]

I needed to put a double coma in the put statment in the following
code or else I would get error 411 "," required. In a another file
openning statment the same put statment didn't require the double
coma. What I am I doing wrong here?
OPEN "DATARACE" FOR RANDOM AS #2 LEN=43
DIM S AS RACEDATA
S.TRK=DB$(1)
S.DDD=DT$
S.RC=DB$(3)
S.DIS=DB$(6)
S.SUR=DB$(7)
S.TP=TYP$
S.PAR=DB$(217)
S.AGE=AGESEX$
S.EARLYPAR=DB$(215)
S.LATEPAR=DB$(218)
S.CR=CHR$(13)
PUT 2,, EE%
CLOSE #2

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[Gregery D Engle]

Jack,

By just looking at your code, the line:

PUT 2,, EE%

the EE% needs to be a string or a struct

PUT 2,, S   '<----- TYPE RACEDATA

Look at WRITE if you want the ability to write data with comma's
between the values.



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-Greg

[Scott Slater]

Jack, you need to use a RECORD position in your PUT statement since
you opened the file as RANDOM. Something like this...

S.TRK = DB$(1)
S.DDD = DT$
.....
.....
S.CR = CHR$(13)
PUT 2, 1, S
    ^  ^  ^
    |  |  +- Variable Name To Save (Can Be Any Type).
    |  +- Record Position In File
    +- File Handle
  
or
PUT$ 2, S$   ' S$ Must be a String Type Variable in This instance

If you Omit the RECORD Position in the PUT statement the Comma still
has to remain.

I hope this helps. If you want to write text data to the file OPEN
the file for OUTPUT or APPEND and then use the PRINT# or WRITE#
statements to write the data to your file.


Scott


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[This message has been edited by Scott Slater (edited August 28, 2001).]

[Tom Hanlin]

Mmm. Well, there is actually nothing wrong with PUTting an integer.
However, looking at Jack's example does suggest that the intent was
to PUT the UDT. Possibly, EE% is mean to be the record number? In
which case:

PUT #2, EE%, S

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Tom Hanlin
PowerBASIC Staff