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From: king@cell.mot.COM (Steven King)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Big problemo
Message-ID: <219@grape3.UUCP>
Date: 12 Oct 89 20:01:35 GMT
References: <8909301118.AA12083@trout.nosc.mil> <909@friar-taac.UUCP>
Organization: Motorola Inc. - Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL 60004
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In article <909@friar-taac.UUCP> matthew@friar-taac.UUCP (Matthew Stier - Sun Visualization Products) writes:
>In article <8909301118.AA12083@trout.nosc.mil> markl@pro-generic.cts.com (Mark Leumanne) writes:
>|Network Comment: to #5644 by SEWALL%UCONNVM.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
>|
>|Well, today I was working on a program of mine, and well, I experienced an
>|EXREMELY frustrating error.  It was an error 16 on a line that was like this:
>|
>|260 PRINT D$;"OPEN DATE"
>             ^---------------- Notice multi-line seperator.

              ^------Notice the TEXT-STRING CONCATENATION

The semi-colon is used in Applesoft PRINT statements to show that no spacing
is printed between strings.  For example,

     10 PRINT "Hello";"World"

Will print

     HelloWorld

The semi-colon is optional and, unless there's some really obscure bug that
I'm unaware of in Applesoft, makes no difference one way or the other if it's
included or omitted in a PRINT statement.

Applesoft uses the regular colon as a multi-line separator, not the semi-colon.
You've been using Unix too long, Matthew!  :-)

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