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Chapter —Program Instructions
INPUT$
Purpose Function returning a string of data, limited in regard of number of characters,
from the standard IN channel, or optionally from an OPENed file or
device.
Syntax INPUT$([,])
is the number of characters to be read.
optionally specifies a file or device using the number assigned to
it when it was OPENed.
Remarks If no file or device is specified, the input will come from the standard I/O
channel, see SETSTDIO statement.
Otherwise, it will come from the specified file or device. The execution will
be held until the specified number of characters has been received from
the keyboard console, file, or communication channel. If a file does not
contain the specified number of characters, the execution will be resumed
as soon as all available characters in the file have been received.
The maximum number of characters that can be returned using an
INPUT$ statement is 65,536 characters.
Examples This example reads a sequence of 25 characters from the printer’s built-in
keyboard and assigns them to a string variable named Z$:
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1000 OPEN "CONSOLE:" FOR INPUT AS #1
1010 Z$=INPUT$(25,1)
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In this example, 10 characters are read from the standard IN channel and
assigned to a variable.
10 A$=INPUT$(10)
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