Help with PRINT command...

[misticalbobo]

Okay I'm new to programming and I'm making a text RPG Battler to practice coding. So I wanted to know if theres a way to make the text go down a line without doing this

PRINT "1. Attack"
PRINT "2. Defend"
PRINT "3. Magic"
PRINT "4. Escape"

Because that's the only way I know, lol. Just wondering if there's a more convenient way.

[Ralph]

Unless you plan to print these four lines more than once, your way is the best way.

If you plan on printing those lines many times, this way is better:

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DIM P(4) AS STRING
P(1) = "1. Attack" 
P(2) = "2. Defend" 
P(3) = "3. Magic" 
P(4) = "4. Escape" 

Then, each time you need to print the above, you use:

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FOR I = 1 TO 4
  PRINT P(I)
NEXT I

[Nodtveidt]

If you're talking about a way to manually position text, what you want is the LOCATE keyword.

[Patz QuickBASIC Creations]

I don't know why you would want to, but you could print a carriage return:

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PRINT "1. Attack" + CHR$(13) + "2. Defend" + CHR$(13) + "3. Magic" + CHR$(13) + "4. Escape" 

[Erik]

If you're looking for something similar to the C/C++ "\n" then see the post above me.

If you're going to be writing them out a lot, you could always create a sub called "DisplayBattleText" (or whatever) and store the text in there. Then just use a "CALL DisplayBattleText" in your program when you wanted it.

Locate command works as follows:

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LOCATE 5, 6 'that's y-pos, x-pos
PRINT "Where you stated in the previous command"

[Nodtveidt]

DON'T use CALL at all, it's 100% unnecessary. It's like using LET.

[Patz QuickBASIC Creations]

List of commands to avoid:

DEF FN (use FUNCTION instead)
WHILE (use DO WHILE instead)
LET (omit)
CALL (omit)

and more than likely many others...

[Zoasterboy]

If you want to save lines, just use ":" like this

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PRINT "Menu": PRINT "1. Item One": PRINT "2. Item Two"

The ":" represents a new line.