Re: 1980 Basic Sought

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> On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:55:55 -0400, "Tom Lake" <tlake@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> On 15 Mrz., 03:29, "Tom Lake" <tl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> > On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:06:08 -0500, "Judson McClendon"
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>>> I did not find SADD in my MS-DOS QBasic programmer's reference.
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>>SADD gives a string's address.  It eliminates having to do a DEF SEG and
a
>>VARPTR.
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> VARPTR on a string returns the address of the descriptor, which
> woudn't be all that useful.

Well the description has the actual address of the string in it so you can

then
get to the string itself.  SADD eliminates all that indirection.  When you
If a$ = "Test" then you can do the following:

? CHR$(PEEK(SADD(a$)))

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Tom Lake
Tom Lake