mojoehand wrote:
>> On page 33 of the beagle basic manual a subroutine for an Applesoft
>> SUBSTRING SEARCH is listed. See lines 100-160.
> 
> Thanks Bill. This corresponds with Michael's suggestion #2 above. I'll
> try this method and see if it is fast enough for what I am doing. I'm
> working my way through an old book with a mixture of 6502 and
> Applesoft. I didn't like the way the book was doing hex to decimal
> conversions, which is why I wanted to use INSTR. I remember that on
> more fully featured MS BASICs, INSTR was very fast.
> 
> Speaking of missing BASIC keywords, I see that MOD is also missing
> from Applesoft. Another very useful function.

A fairly fast hex-to-number conversion routine is in lines 210-260 of:

http://home.comcast.net/~MJMahon/FSERVER.txt

...as I said, I try not to need INSTR.  ;-)

-michael

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