Re: A QBASIC Question

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From: DENNIS LITTLE
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 21:59

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In article <1992Sep30.105036.646@hls.com>, tima@hls.com                           writes...
> 
>I've been hacking around with QBASIC recently and I've come across 
>a problem that I can't figure out. When I execute the program shown below,
>I get a syntax error. Any suggestions ????
> 
>  DEFINT a-z
> 
>  CONST Num = 10
> 
>  READ a          <===== error is reported at this line
> 
>  DATA Num
> 
>  END
> 
> 
>Tim
>tima@hls.com

The "Read A" line assumes an integer variable and since "Num"
is not numeric, it will crash... Try changing A to A$ and see
what happens.

me

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