Bronze Edition Guide - True BASIC

10. Formatting and Printing Your Program 67
Now select the Do Format command in the Run menu. This command indents the statements
inside structures and puts all keywords into uppercase. You should find the structures
much easier to follow. (In fact, Do Format is a good first step in debugging your program.
Chapter 18 has more information on that.)
! Program to play a guessing game.
!
RANDOMIZE
LET answer = Int(Rnd*6) + 1 ! Choose number from 1 to 6
PRINT “I’m thinking of a number from 1 to 6.”
PRINT “You have 3 chances to guess it.”
PRINT
FOR chance = 1 to 3
PRINT “Enter your guess”; ! Ask for number
INPUT guess
IF guess = answer THEN
PRINT “Correct!!!”
STOP
! Stop here, you guessed it
ELSE
! Analyze wrong answers
IF guess > answer then
PRINT “Too high. Guess again.”
ELSE
PRINT “Too low. Guess again.”
END IF
END IF
NEXT chance
PRINT
PRINT “The number was”; answer
END
You should now be able to easily see and follow the nested IF structure that is in the
ELSE segment of the first IF structure.
To make this program even more readable, you could add some blank lines. Remember
how to do this? Place the cursor (horizontal blinking bar) at the end or beginning of a line
and press the RETURN-key. Use the DELETE-key at the beginning of the line to remove
undesired blank lines.
Indenting Blocks with > and < keys
You can, of course, indent single lines by adding spaces at the beginning of the line.
You can also easily indent a block of lines in True BASIC. First, select the lines you wish
to indent by dragging across those lines with the mouse cursor. (Make sure than the entire