Tandy 1000 Basic Reference Manual page 205

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LINE INPUT# Statement
LINE INPUT#
buffer, variable
Accepts an entire line of data from a sequential file to a string
variable.
Buffer is the number assigned to the file when you opened it.
This statement is useful when you want to read an ASCII format
BASIC program file as data or when you want
to
read in data
without following the usual restrictions regarding leading char-
acters and terminators.
LINE INPUT# reads everything from the first character up to:
0
the end-of-file
the 255th data character
0
a carriage return
Other characters encountered-quotation marks, commas, lead-
ing blanks-are included in the string.
Note: You must place
a space between LINE and
INPUT#.
Example
If a ASCII format program file looks like this:
1 0 CLEAR 5 0 0
2 0 OPEN
"I", 1 ,
" p r o g "
then the statement:
L I N E
I N P U T # l , A $
can be used repeatedly to read each program line, one at a time.
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