Radio Shack TRS-80 Owner's Manual page 162

5ISK
S^S^EM
a$
becomes
a two-byte
representation of
the Integer portion of
8/1.
Any
fractional portion
is
ignored.
Note
that
a$
in this
case
is
a
normal
string
variable, not a
buffer-field
name.
Suppose baseball/bat
(a non-standard lie extension)
has
been opened
for
random
access using buffer
2,
and
the buffer has
been
FiELDed
as
follows:
held:
NM$
YRS$ AVG$
HR$
AB$
ERNING$
length: 16 2 4
2
4
4
nm$
is
intended
to
hold a character
string;
avg$, ab$ and
ernings, converted
single-precision values;
yrs$ and
hr$, converted
integers.
Suppose
we
want
to
write the following data
record:
slow learner
played 38
years; lifetime batting average
.
123;
career
homeruns,
11; at
bats, 32768;..., earnings
-
13.75.
Then we'd
use
the
make-string
functions as follows:
1000
LSET NM$="SL0W LEARNER"
1010 LSET YRS$=MKI*(38)
1020 LSET AMG$=MKS$(
,123)
1030 LSET HR$=MKI$(11)
1040 LSET AB$=HKS$(327G8)
105B LSET ERNING*=MKS*(-13,75)
After
this
sequence, you can
write
slow
learner's
information
to disk with
the
put
statement.
When
you
read
it
back from
disk with get,
you
will
need
to restore the
numeric
data
from
string to
numeric
form, using cvi and cvs
functions.
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