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Newcomers DBPro Corner / I'm an idiot. Please help. I want to use input so I can repeat what someone's said.

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Professor Bob Bobson
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Posted: 6th Apr 2005 23:36
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Hi,
Just say I wanted to ask someone what they wanted to eat/drink/dive in. I would say something like:
print"What do you want to eat"
Then what??? Do I put an input in? Do I write PRINT "Yes I like___ too"???

It doesn't take a genius to become a professor, but it does to programme this...
Professur Bobb

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Neil19533
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Posted: 7th Apr 2005 06:09
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some code to mess about with

Print "hello"
input "what is your name? ",Name$
Print "hello " + Name$
input "what is your age? ",age#
age2=age#+10
print "in ten years you will be " + str$(age2) + " years old."
wait key

Any spelling mistakes are totally In tensional.
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Professor Bob Bobson
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Posted: 7th Apr 2005 18:42
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Thanks!!! I've done that and added another bit using if.

How can I make it so there can be more than one option of flavour?

Professssurrr Bob

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blanky
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Posted: 7th Apr 2005 20:33 Edited at: 7th Apr 2005 20:43
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MY NEXT POST WIL HELP U 1!!!!!!!!!!!111!!!
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Neil, why have you got the age as a floating point (decimal, for the uninitiated) variable??

I mean, I'm not 100% sure how the DB compiler works, but I'm pretty sure that when it tries to do:

age2 = age# + 10

First, it'll round off age#, thus possibly telling people completely the wrong answer.

Logically, it'd be better to replace all of those instances of 'age#' with 'age' (or 'age1' for clarity), but mathematically it would be more accurate to change the whole thing to floating point:

input "What is your age? ", age#
age2#=age#+10.0
print "In ten years, you'll be "+str$(age2#)+" years old."
wait key

Arlight?
Oh wait, newbie tutorial.. Dammit..

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blanky
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To answer your question, your pofessor sip:

print "What be you eating, yes yes?"
input " >> ",food$
print "HEY GIVE ME BACK MY "+food$

The '$' means it's a string, a text data type in other words.

So, if I told teh machine I'm eating 'socks' and I hit enter, my screen looks like this:

What be you eating, yes yes?
>> socks
HEY GIVE ME BACK MY socks

You could improve this by saying:

print "HEY GIVE ME BACK MY "+Upper$(food$)

What Upper$ does, is it converts something to uppercase.
The $ on it means that it gives you back text, so it can be treated as a variable (if used properly).

This would produce a nicer:

HEY GIVE ME BACK MY SOCKS

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