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Eddie Gordo

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Posted: 1st Jul 2003 00:21

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i want to know how to read a number from a file, like an ascii file, number by number is this possible?

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Shadow Robert

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Posted: 1st Jul 2003 00:29

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loader.dba

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dim Characters(16) as byte

open to read "myfile.txt",1
   read string 1,name$
   for i=0 to 15
      read byte 1,Charaters(i)
   next i
close file 1

for i=0 to 15
   myname$=myname$+Characters(i)
next i

text 0,0,name$
text 0,20,myname$
wait key

undim Characters(0)

myfile.txt

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First Line Read
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Eddie Gordo

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Posted: 1st Jul 2003 19:13

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are the bytes read as numbers or strings, because in ASCII 13,10, is a page break, i want to know if thats what happens to the string if it has a break or if its just all numbers converted to a string.

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Shadow Robert

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Posted: 1st Jul 2003 20:18 Edited at: 1st Jul 2003 20:20

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good point i forgot about that

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dim Characters(16) as byte

open to read "myfile.txt",1
   read string 1,name$
   for i=0 to 15
      read byte 1,Charaters(i)
   next i
close file 1

for i=0 to 15
   myname$=myname$+chr$(Characters(i))
next i

text 0,0,name$
text 0,20,myname$
wait key

undim Characters(0)

now it'll work

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just use the chr$/asc commands for it to work... it'll read anything and convert to standard text.
although in db standard the read string command would only read each line or 256 characters (whichever came first) this limit might've been altered for dbpro.

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