>>>I have the variables DIM'd like this at the start of the FN:
>>>CLEAR LOCAL
>>>DIM endBar,endFlag,64 p$,tint
>>
>>What's the 64 for? Just by looking at it I can say I don't recognise what
>>the heck your doing (in a nice way:-)
>
>Making the maximum length of the string 64 bytes...

I mean I thought the common convention for doing this is either:
dim p$.64
or
dim p$;64

I've never used:
dim 64 p$

And I don't think the p$ gets a length byte; as I recall you physically set
the length at 64 bytes. If you say:
p$="A", then p$ will equal "A"+63 bytes...

so saying
p$="A"
long if p$="A"
 BEEP
xelse
 BEEP:BEEP:BEEP
end if

You'll get a triple beep, 'cuz you never account for the other 63 bytes.

I "usually" don't do a "dim p$;20" unless I'm reading 20 bytes from a file
at a time...
But now I'm trying handles, so I almost never use strings anymore... :-)



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