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From: edp@jareth.enet.dec.com (Eric Postpischil (Always mount a scratch monkey.))
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Subject: Re: strings on 48
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Date: 13 May 91 12:31:15 GMT
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In article <1991May11.213329.1322@cs.dal.ca>, silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill
Silvert) writes:

>Is there a way to store strings on the HP48SX without having the system
>possibly rewriting them?  If I try to store "00-00" in a string variable
>the system stores "0-0".

The 48 stores strings just fine.  It sounds like you may be entering
'00-00' instead of "00-00".  The former, using apostrophes, is an
algebraic object:  zero minus zero.  It is stored internally with tokens
that represent zero minus zero, and when it is displayed, zero is
displayed as 0.  The latter is a string; it is stored character by
character.  Use quotation marks for strings -- the quotation marks are
blue-shifted on the minus key.



				-- edp (Eric Postpischil)
				"Always mount a scratch monkey."
				edp@jareth.enet.dec.com