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panky

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Posted: 09:36am 09 Aug 2019

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Anyone know of any way to access comments that are embedded inside an MMBasic program from a running MMBasic program?

panky

... almost all of the Maximites, the MicromMites, the MM Extremes, the ArmMites, the PicoMite and loving it!

matherp
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Posted: 11:28am 09 Aug 2019

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'This is a comment
do
j= peek(progmem,i)
if j=39 then s=1
if j=0 then
if s then
s=0
print ""
endif
j= peek(progmem,i+1) 'comment this line
if j=0 then exit do
endif
if s then print chr$(j);
i=i+1
loop
'This is another comment
print "Thats all folks"

Edited 2019-08-09 21:42 by matherp

CaptainBoing

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Posted: 01:47pm 09 Aug 2019

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without the faf, is it something you can put in DATA statements? so instead of

' this is a comment

you could have

DATA "this is a comment"

and then access it without the cryptic (albeit interesting) work that Peter just highlighted, with simple RESTORE and READ.

This also make those comments immune to CRUNCHing - which might be a problem if you have code that is expecting to have something useful in the comment.
Edited 2019-08-09 23:50 by CaptainBoing

panky

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Posted: 10:53pm 10 Aug 2019

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@matherp and captainboing,

Many thanks to both - exactly what I was looking for,
Regards,
Panky.

... almost all of the Maximites, the MicromMites, the MM Extremes, the ArmMites, the PicoMite and loving it!

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