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crackerjack

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Joined: 11/07/2011
Location: Australia
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Posted: 12:51am 15 Oct 2011

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I'm unsure if this has been noticed or mentioned before, but it seems that MMBasic doesn't require end quotes on strings. This is odd, but advantageous if you want to save a byte here and there and a keystroke or two. Newline seems to suffice to terminate the string. Try these:

[code]
load "myprog.bas

...or...

A$ = "test
? A$

[/code]Edited by crackerjack 2011-10-16

Greg Fordyce
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Joined: 16/09/2011
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: 09:07am 15 Oct 2011

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I have noticed this as well, but it will only save you a few keystrokes. MMBasic will add the end quotes to a program listing. Try this,

> 10 print "Hello
> list
10 PRINT "Hello"

aargee
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Joined: 21/08/2008
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Posted: 11:00am 15 Oct 2011

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That was actually part of many of the original Basic implementations. I clearly remember programming this way in the early '80s and I've never used an end quote with the MM.Edited by aargee 2011-10-16

For crying out loud, all I wanted to do was flash this blasted LED.

crackerjack

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Posted: 12:18am 16 Oct 2011

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Just look out for strange and odd behaviour if you have multi-line statements such as:

[code]
10 A$ = "Foo : B$ = "Bar
[/code]

A$ will have a value of Foo : B$ = and B$ will be uninitialised and empty. MMBasic will not add end-quotes.

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