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palcal

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Posted: 08:13am 08 Feb 2012

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Me again pestering all you helpful folk. I have a problem with an extra space being put in a print statement.
In the code:-
a=6:b=10
print a":"b
the result is 6: 10 when it should read 6:10
why does the extra space come in after the colon.
Paul.

"It is better to be ignorant and ask a stupid question than to be plain Stupid and not ask at all"

djuqa

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Posted: 08:26am 08 Feb 2012

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Working exactly as per the language specifications

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JohnS
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Posted: 08:30am 08 Feb 2012

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Most (all?) Basics are defined to do that. You want a formatted print.

Have a look at things like FORMAT$()

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ajkw
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Posted: 10:06am 08 Feb 2012

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palcal,

another idea is to print the numbers as strings.

ie

print str$(6);str$(10)

or

a=6:b=10
print str$(a)+":"+str$(b)

Cheers,
Anthony.Edited by ajkw 2012-02-09

crackerjack

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Posted: 10:59am 08 Feb 2012

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...or for not-terribly-realistic solution, try the new PRINT @ syntax, e.g.

[code]
a=6:b=10
cls:print @(100,100) a:print @(115,100) b:pixel(115,103)=1:pixel(115,106)=1
[/code]

...of course it is hardly a real solution, just making a point that there are many ways to achieve an outcome in MMBasic.

Keep havin' fun! (and stick with what ajkw said).Edited by crackerjack 2012-02-09

shoebuckle
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Posted: 10:35pm 11 Feb 2012

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Try
a=6
b=10
Print Format$(a)":"Format$(b)

Prints "6:10" without a leading blank.

Cheers,
Hugh

mookster1
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Posted: 08:51pm 12 Feb 2012

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I seem to be having probelms with PRINT @. When I told it to put an X in the middle of the screen (240,216) it put the X significantly to the right of that (the Y coord was OK though.) X=0 makes the X appear about 10 X's (can't remember the exact pixels) out from the left edge. Probably not the right place to put this, but has anyone else had this problem? BTW I'm using MMBasic 3.1

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