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Zaine

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Posted: 15th Jun 2006 22:37

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ok im still kinda new to this so i might have a really stupid questiong, but i am trying to set this program up to where you got to enter in a password that is atuomatically set up so it will start to type something for you, but no matter what i set the pass at, you can type in anything and it will just go to the screen. how do i fix it.. please help a noob out.

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print "If you can figure out this password then you can see what its all about."
input "Password: ",pass$

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Dream And Death

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Posted: 15th Jun 2006 22:48

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I'm guessing that you are thinking that pass$ holds the password you need to guess - it doesn't, it holds the user's input. You need to compare it to a stored password.

Try this:

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password$="PASSWORD"
print "If you can figure out this password then you can see what its all about."
input "Password: ",pass$
if pass$<>password$ end

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Zaine

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Posted: 15th Jun 2006 22:54 Edited at: 15th Jun 2006 23:28

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ok i set it up the way you got it, although i did forget to say i was using DB Classic, but now im getting a syntax error at the end of it.

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Daemon

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Posted: 15th Jun 2006 23:44

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password$="PASSWORD"
print "If you can figure out this password then you can see what its all about."
input "Password: ",pass$
if pass$<>password$ then end

He forgot to put then. For this it doesn't matter which version of DB you are using.

Insanity is just a state of mind

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Dream And Death

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Posted: 16th Jun 2006 15:00

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Yeah, I'm moving away from visual basic where you need:

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If a = 1 then

'...do something

elseif a=2 then

'...do something else.

elseif a=a then print "I'm not confused by when to use 'then', cause you always use it!"

end if

to DarkBasic where you need:

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If a=1

`... do something

else
   if a=2
   `...do something else
   else
      if a=a then print "I'm sometimes forget when to use 'then', cause it's not consistent!"
   endif
endif

The inconsistency of 'then' drives me crazy! As does the lack of elseif!

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