Tandy 1000 Basic Reference Manual page 183

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I BASIC Kevioords
INPUT#
Statement
INPUT# buffer, variable[,variable..
.I
Accepts data from a sequential device or file and stores it in a
program
variable.
Buffer
is the number assigned to the file when you opened it.
Variable
is any s t r i n g or numeric variable to contain the
in for mat ion.
The sequential file may be a disk file, a data stream from a com-
munications device, or the keyboard device.
With INPUT#, data is input sequentially. That is, when the file
is opened, a pointer is set to the beginning of the file. The
pointer advances each time data is input. To start reading from
the beginning of the file again, you must close the file buffer and
reopen it.
INPUT# does not care how you place the data in the file-
whether you use a single PRINT# statement or 10 different
PRINT# statements. INPUT# looks only for the position of the
terminating characters and the end-of-file
(EOF)
marker.
When inputting data into a variable, BASIC ignores leading
blanks. When the first nonblank character is encountered,
BASIC assumes it has encountered the beginning of the data
item.
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