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thwill

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Posted: 01:24pm 05 Sep 2020

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This was perplexing me whilst porting some BBC BASIC code.

Try this on for size:

Colour Maximite 2
MMBasic Version 5.05.05
Copyright 2011-2020 Geoff Graham
Copyright 2016-2020 Peter Mather

> list "test.bas"
Dim x
For i = 1 To 32
Read x
Print x;
Next i
Data 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5

> run "test.bas"
Error in line 3: Syntax

The DATA line has 33 items, if you reduce it to 32 then it works.

Best wishes,

Tom

MMBasic for Linux, Game*Mite, CMM2 Welcome Tape, Creaky old text adventures

CaptainBoing

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Posted: 02:02pm 05 Sep 2020

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works fine on a stock micromite

> RUN
5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
> ? mm.device$
Micromite MkII
>

Chopperp

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Posted: 02:23pm 05 Sep 2020

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Try using RESTORE first to reset the DATA pointer.

Brian

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thwill

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Posted: 02:39pm 05 Sep 2020

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Chopperp said Try using RESTORE first to reset the DATA pointer.

Brian

RESTORE makes no difference, and it shouldn't, the DATA pointer should already be set to the first piece of data if READ has never been called.

Best wishes,

Tom

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Posted: 02:43pm 05 Sep 2020

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Check the MMBasic implementation details in the manual and then split the data statement

thwill

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Posted: 02:54pm 05 Sep 2020

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matherp said Check the MMBasic implementation details in the manual and then split the data statement

Ever cryptic

this section is a (relatively) recent addition to the manual and not present in the version I was referencing.

p46, Maximum number of arguments to commands that accept a variable number of arguments is 32

Thanks,

Tom

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