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LINE INPUT#
Chapter 2 Program Instructions
Field of Application Statement for assigning an entire line, including punctuation marks,
from a sequential file or a device to a single string variable.
Syntax LINE INPUT#,
↔
is the number assigned to the file when it was OPENed.
is the string variable to which the input line is assigned.
Remarks This statement differs from the INPUT# statement in that an entire line of
max. 300 characters will be read, and possible commas in the line will be
included in the string as punctuation marks instead of dividing it into portions.
When reading from a sequential file, the lines can be read one after the other
by the repeated issuing of LINE INPUT# statements, using the same file
reference.
Once a line has been read, it cannot be read again until the file is CLOSEd and
then OPENed again.
The LINE INPUT# statement is useful when the lines in a file has been broken
into fields.
Note that LINE INPUT# filters out any incoming ASCII 00 dec. characters
(NUL).
Example This example assigns data from the three first lines of the file "Addresses" to
the string variables A$, B$ and C$ respectively:
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100 OPEN "ADDRESSES" FOR INPUT AS #5
110 LINE INPUT# 5, A$
120 LINE INPUT# 5, B$
130 LINE INPUT# 5, C$
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