I am reminded of the one line basic program activity.  sometimes BASIC can
be so compact.

Here is a way to do a WHILE statement or and endless loop as part of a one
line program

FOR I=1 to2:?i:I=I-1:ifinkey$="a"theni=i+1:nextelsenext



On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 12:02 PM, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 7:08 AM Stephen Adolph <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I found this interesting bit of code.
>> here E=chr$(27).
>>
>> 10 PRINTE"pFile to Convert "E"q";
>>
>> I didn't know that basic automatically concatenates strings like this.  I
>> would have written this
>>
>> 10 PRINT E+"p"+"File to Convert"+E+"q";
>>
> Huh! I don’t remember ever seeing that, and I’ve typed in a lot of MS
> BASIC programs.
>
> — John.
>

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