Sean Astin is the greatest BASIC programmer of our generation

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Post by wunderbaba » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 5:38 PM UTC

Re: Sean Astin is the greatest BASIC programmer of our generation

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 11:18 PM UTC

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Post by DaveExeter » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 2:33 AM UTC

DIM FourDigitPassword INTEGER ?

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Post by n4r9 » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 7:33 AM UTC

Does BASIC allow padded string formatting? If so, you only need the one loop.

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Post by szc » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 12:56 PM UTC

n4r9 wrote: post #4

Does BASIC allow padded string formatting? If so, you only need the one loop.

No, but there are other tricks, such as prepending enough zeros and then taking the rightmost 4 characters from the string...

FOR I = 0 TO 9999 : A$ = RIGHT$("000"+STR$(I),4) : ... rest of the code : NEXT I

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Post by perl4ever » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 10:05 PM UTC

I saw this headline and pictured him as a hobbit terminator, with BASIC code scrolling down one side of his field of view.