Tandy 1000 Basic Reference Manual page 184

Chapter
10
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BASIC Ke-ywords
The data item ends when BASIC encounters a terminating char-
acter or when a terminating condition occurs. The terminating
characters vary, depending on whether BASIC is inputting to a
numeric or a string variable:
Numeric: BASIC ends input when it encounters a carriage
return or a comma.
String: BASIC ends input when it encounters a carriage re-
turn or a comma, unless the first character is a quotation
mark(
"
).
If the first character is a quotation mark, BASIC
ends input when it encounters a second quotation mark.
Thus, a quoted string may not contain a quotation mark as
a character.
Examples
I N P U T # l ,
A , B
sequentially inputs 2 numeric data items from the file opened to
Buffer 1 and places them in A and B.
I N P U T # 4 ,
A $ ,
E $ ,
C $
sequentially inputs 3 string data items from the file opened to
Buffer
4
and places them in A$, B$, and C$.
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