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Ahhh... OK. Well, today is probably my last day of "playing on the computer". First-of-the-month means returning to other pressing issues. That last post makes sense, Burger, hopefuly that clears it up. Thanks again, and maybe we'll bump into each other in the future. Geminga, in VT aka Pe...

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Yep, I'm a newbie...

Here's the code: DO INPUT #1, col1, col2, col3, col4, col5, col6, col7, col8, col9, col10, col11, col12, col13, col14, col15, col16, col17, col18, col19, col20, col21, col22, col23, col24, col25, col26, col27, col28, col29, col30, col31, col32, col33, col34, col35, col36, col37, col38 star.col1 = co...

Well, still a problem. The code as sugested wouldn't "debug" in QBasic. An error about including a "." "Identifier cannot include a period". I see in other threads that this a common prob... -------------------------------- CLS TYPE startype col1 AS STRING * 12 . . . co...

Thanks burger!

I'll give that a try.

The following code is supposed to re-format a fixed-width database file as CSV. The output contains the correct number of bytes, but is no longer text:( The book 'QBasic by Example' sheds no light on this. What did I do wrong? TIA ---------------------------------------------------------------------...

Excellant!
Thank you so much:)

Thanks for the the help:) My main reference is a book called 'QBasic by Example'. It shows how INPUT can be used to read the fields from a CSV. I'm trying to *make* a CSV from a very large fixed-width file. LINE INPUT can do that, but it seems to choke when there are too many lines in the source fil...

Sorry for the ambiguity. Is there a workaround for the LINE INPUT string space problem? Should the file be processed as BINARY? ---------------- Since that post, I tried cutting the file into 32000-line chunks (with SPLIT.EXE). Got 79 files, each 6,720,000 Bytes. Still too large:( Even the 3,617,044...

Hi All! New to QBasic. Running the QB included w/ W98|| on a W98|| system. The quest: Process fixed-width astronomical database files so that they load in Aladin. I feel no attachment to QB, it just seems like a language I can handle. With a little help from other topics in this forum, I produced a ...