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echo: quik_bas
to: DAVID WILLIAMS
from: BILL WHITE
date: 1998-04-02 15:04:00
subject: Old Folks

DW> -> IF NOT LEN(k$) THEN GOTO Again
DW> Hahahahaha!!! That will get you into all kinds of trouble! It will
DW> *not*, as you are obviously expecting, "GOTO Again" only if LEN(k$)
DW> is  zero. What it will do is take LEN(k$), do a Boolean NOT - i.e.
     Yeah, I didn't think it thru. BOOLEAN can be
tricky.  I wrote a line the other day something like
IF variable$(8)  "b" AND variable$(12)  "b" THEN
It didn't execute properly - I needed OR, not AND.
     I once said that if I send out any code more
complicated than
PRINT "Bill White"
I test it.  I violated my own rule!     *:o)
  FIDO: Bill White @ 1:135/110 (Miami)
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