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.

Lose the brackets

Code:

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FOR a% = 1 TO 100
NEXT a%

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This will increment a% from 1 to 100 without any problems (inserting a PRINT a% between FOR and NEXT will varify this).

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"

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:

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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

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

Oh and is Chipmunk Basic only for mac?

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

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

I thought in General Discussion mostly anything went.

From QBasic Help:

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

Code:

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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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Quote:

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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"

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did you try both uppercase and lowercase J?
i think you forgot a comma in the input statement

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

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.

[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.