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2012-07-14 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Jul 15, 2012 12:56 AM, "Ralf A. Quint" wrote: > > See above. It would be really helpful for you if you hit the books > about BASIC (almost any one will do) to understand the differences > between the different data types and how to use them. Or he could use a language like Rexx (see Regin

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2012-07-14 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 08:22 PM 7/14/2012, Kenny Emond wrote: >Hey, > > I'm not sure if I can post this here, but I seem to have hit a > small roadblock (but I don't know where it is). My main goal is to > have an easily accessible meter and feet converter. When I use > FBide to compile and run, it comes up with

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2012-07-14 Thread Mark Brown
if there's no mistake, "input" is for numbers, and inkey$ or inkey was for alphanumerics... you'll need to check the book to see what's the input acceptor for alphabetic input...   eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com

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2012-07-14 Thread dmccunney
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Kenny Emond wrote: > dim ft as single, m as single, answer1 as single, answer2 as single, input1 > as string, a as string, b as string Might the mixture of singles and strings in your dim statement be the issue? You are defining your results as numbers, but y

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2012-07-14 Thread Kenny Emond
Hey, I'm not sure if I can post this here, but I seem to have hit a small roadblock (but I don't know where it is). My main goal is to have an easily accessible meter and feet converter. When I use FBide to compile and run, it comes up with no errors. But when it runs, I put in "a" or "b" and th