This command will read a string from the file and store it as a string in the variable specified.

READ STRING File Number, Variable String

File Number

Integer
The file number

Variable String

String
This command will read a string from the file and store it as a string in the variable specified

This command does not return a value.

The file specified by the file number must be open or the command will fail.

cls

open file to read 1,"data.dat"

read string 1,a$

close file(1)

do

loop

end

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