Pete's QBASIC Site

Nathan1993 wrote:Ill get him on here when he comes home... hes at a canoe clinic for my boy scout troop... cuz all I know is that he made the proggy...

A canoe clinic, is that where sick canoes go?
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Pete,

I must thank you for the professional formatting and highlighting that you did on my metric conversion tutorial, which I had sent you in plain-vanilla text. Certainly not a task done by a "lazy" person.

Thanks again,
Edward F. Moneo
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Z!re wrote:Moneo: I was correcting you.. decimals are determined by the variable type, not the number of decimals used in the factors.....

I can't figure out what you were correcting, but that's ok, you go ahead and correct whatever you want.
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...... Hmm... in Nebraska, back in the 1980s, my dad wrote a ATM program, and we went back there a few years ago and a lot of ATMs there still use that same program he made... There's lots of hidden talent in Nebraska. Ask your dad if he worked for the bank that installed these ATM's, or did he wor...

When a member posts some code, if I understand it, I always check it out for possible problems. 5) The PRODUCT will contain as many decimal places as the numbers determine. If the IPNUM had 2 decimals, then 2 + 1 of the .9 can give you a maximum of 3 decimal places in the PRODUCT. DIM a AS DOUBLE D...

.....If I find a solution to my QB problem, I'll be sure to tell you. Can you run DOS at all on your Internet machine? If not, have you considered booting DOS either with a dual-boot option or from a diskette? If you can get to DOS by either of the above methods, then you can compile, test, and run...

If it doesn't have a keypad, couldn't somone pick up your card, stick it in the machine, and get cash? How could it prompt you for a PIN number? Mabye I should try it... Moneo, where did you say that ATM was :P :wink: You're right, there must have been a keypad for your PIN number. I didn't actuall...

..... Do you just go around my posts looking for errors? My internet computer doesn't have QBASIC because it can't run it right. I am only running these through PQBC-BASIC (my head), which is not always correct :wink: ..... Please don't take it personal, PQBC. When a member posts some code, if I un...

I have always lived in Wilson County, Texas. It is just south east of San Antonio. Floresville, my hometown, the largest city in Wilson County, has a population of about 5800. It has 3 traffic lights. Poth, the city currently closest to me, has a pop of about 1800 and 1 traffic light. I live in a r...

Watch out, the Timer gets reset at midnight.
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I use this when I need to make a number have 4 decimal places. NumberTesting$ = STR$(Number) IF NOT INSTR(".", NumberTesting$) THEN NumberTesting$ = NumberTesting + ".0000" While LEN(NumberTesting)-INSTR(".", NumberTesting$) < 4 Let NumberTesting$ = NumberTesting$ + &q...

You're right, Michael. I did forget LONG.
I stand corrected --- thanks.
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Thanks for speaking up, Michael.
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A town "in the middle of nowhere." It's sometimes referred to as "a wide spot in the road." Having been born and raised in New York City, I've seen most of the towns in upstate NY that you guys mentioned. It's really pretty up there. I spent a lot of time way out in Suffolk Count...

rights the correct code a isn't declared as a specfic varible i just typed a=0 do a=a+1 key$=inkey$ if a = 100000 then goto finalselection else loop while key$="" the a=0 isn't anywhere near is bit of code 1.4Ghz isn't my machine is a customer(ish)'s machine i'm using * Operating system -...

REGARDING YOUR CODE: * In order to count up to 100,000, the variable "a" must be either SINGLE or DOUBLE, by default or explicitly defined. * The variable "a" must be initialized to zero before entering the DO loop. * The statement "if a = 100000" is incomplete and inva...

Pete,

I agree. I think just eliminating it would be the simplest approach. It's not worth your time to have to be filtering these messages. There are alternative places where these messages can be posted.
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Z!re and Seb, Please be a little more tolerant. You're right, by today's standards typing in all caps, or solid caps, is now pass?. But you should consider that many of us oldtimers used systems, and wrote programs, when there was only 6-bit BCD codes which did not have any lowercase characters. If ...

Hey guys, be nice to this new guy. He has a legitimate question. GMCM: 1) Can the number you get from MID$(LINE$, 79, 8) have a decimal point? Just in case it does, do this: DIM IPNUM AS DOUBLE IPNUM=VAL(MID$(LINE$,79,8)) 2) Just to be consistent, and have all your variables as DOUBLE do this also: ...

Ok, here it is. This is a test version for a range of 1 to 5 elements in the array, so you can see how it works. Later you adapt the code to your program. So compile it and test it. Good luck! Any problems or questions, just ask. defint a-z const anum=5 dim array(1 to anum) for x=1 to anum:array(x)=...