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    Qbasic help

    Each time I use a FOR NEXT command it does this.. Expected:)

    Like say I put

    FOR a% = (1 to 100)
    NEXT a%

    This is SO agrivating..i even copy and pasted it right out of the tutorial to see if I made a syntax error and it still did the same thing.

    Can somebody help me? thanks.
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    Lose the brackets

    Code:
    FOR a% = 1 TO 100
    NEXT a%
    This will increment a% from 1 to 100 without any problems (inserting a PRINT a% between FOR and NEXT will varify this).
    Last edited by mithrandir; 08-02-2002 at 12:36 AM.

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    It works, thanks again. Maybe this isn't that good of a tutorial.

    One more thing.. this is straight out from the tutorial..

    When i put in..

    CLS
    DO WHILE A$ = "J"
    INPUT "Press J to do it again, anything else to quit" A$
    LOOP

    All I get is a blank..i thought i was suppose to be prompted to press "J"
    Last edited by Yaj; 08-02-2002 at 12:43 AM.
    o.o

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    Yeah, where did you get it from? Because even in traditional basic that won't compile. I ran the code you originally posted in Chipmunk basic and I again had to modify it because of the "Expected )" error.

    Code:
    10 FOR a% = 1 TO 100
    20 PRINT a%
    30 NEXT a%

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    I always found this to be a good tutorial for QBasic http://www.geocities.com/SiliconVall...07/qbasic.html

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    I got it from http://www.geocities.com/jamo20010/Tutorial_Menu.html

    Oh and is Chipmunk Basic only for mac?
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    No, if you go to the Chimpmunk Basic homepage (http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic/) you can find a free version for Windows.

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    May I ask why you are posting Qbasic questions on a c/c++ forum?

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    I thought in General Discussion mostly anything went.
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    From QBasic Help:

    Repeats a block of statements while a condition is true or until a condition
    becomes true.

    Code:
    DO [{WHILE | UNTIL} condition]
        [statementblock]
    LOOP
    
    DO
        [statementblock]
    LOOP [{WHILE | UNTIL} condition]
    
        _ condition    A numeric expression that Basic evaluates as true
                       (nonzero) or false (zero).
    
    Example:
        i% = 0
        PRINT "Value of i% at beginning of loop is  "; i%
        DO WHILE i% < 10

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    Originally posted by Yaj
    It works, thanks again. Maybe this isn't that good of a tutorial.

    One more thing.. this is straight out from the tutorial..

    When i put in..

    CLS
    DO WHILE A$ = "J"
    INPUT "Press J to do it again, anything else to quit" A$
    LOOP

    All I get is a blank..i thought i was suppose to be prompted to press "J"
    did you try both uppercase and lowercase J?
    i think you forgot a comma in the input statement

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    I cannot get it to work properly. My advice is to quit those tutorials, and use the link I gave you.

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    I guess so; I don't really know. Either way it doesn't really matter to me, but I was just wondering why you were asking questions about QBASIC here. I thought you might be better off (you might find more help) if you went to a true QBASIC forum. Then again those are probably a little more difficult to find.

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    [stealth], I've had that tutorial in my favorates for a while now..i searched for a while and found a lot of Qbasic tutorials and at first for some reason that one that i was using seemed ok..but i guess it isn't.
    o.o

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