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crez

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Joined: 24/10/2012
Location: Australia
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Posted: 12:18pm 04 Jun 2021

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Open "doc.txt" For input As #1
Line Input #1,t$
For i= 1 To 10
Print Asc(Mid$(t,i,1)),
Next i
Close #1

Open "doc.txt" For input As #1
t=Input$(10,#1)
For i= 1 To 10
Print Asc(Mid$(t,i,1)),
Next i
Close #1
End

gives
> RUN
97 32 98 32 99 32 100 32 101 32
97 9 98 9 99 9 100 9 101 9
>

line input returns spaces = chr$(32)
input$ returns tabs = chr$(9) which is what is in doc.txt

Why?

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