Bronze Edition Guide - True BASIC

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The program will print the items in reverse order:
You have these items:
pliers 2
bags of salt 4
wood stoves 1
umbrellas 2
hammers 4
Array Bounds
In the INVNTORY program, item$ and number both have five elements, numbered from 1
to 5. In True BASIC, however, you can use any numbers as the lower bound and upper
bound for the array. That is, instead of having a lower bound of 1, the array could have a
lower bound of 1991. Instead of having an upper bound of 5, you might use 1995. You still
have an array with five elements, but with different bounds.
You may want to adjust array bounds to make a particular problem easier to solve. The following
program shows how you could read and compare census figures for a couple of towns:
! View census figures
!
DIM springfield(1985 to 1990), woodsville(1985 to 1990)
FOR y = 1985 to 1990
READ springfield(y), woodsville(y)
NEXT y
INPUT PROMPT “What year are you interested in? “: year
IF springfield(year) > woodsville(year) then
LET town$ = “Springfield”
ELSE
LET town$ = “Woodsville”
END IF
PRINT “In”; year; town$; “ had the largest population.”
DATA 17635, 16413, 17986, 16920, 18022, 17489
DATA 18130, 17983, 18212, 18433, 18371, 18778
END
A sample run produces output such as:
What year are you interested in? 1987
In 1987 Springfield had the largest population.