Me again

[izidor]

First:

Why a string has fixed number of characters?
I tried this:

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DIM s AS STRING * 10000
INPUT a

But the text stops at 4 row.

Second:

How to open whole text not just one row with OPEN statement?

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OPEN "abc.txt" for input as #1
input #1,a$
print a$

[Harry Potter]

How to open whole text not just one row with OPEN statement?

Try this:

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OPEN "file.txt" FOR INPUT AS #1
 S$=INPUT$(LOF(#1),#1)
CLOSE #1

[burger2227]

# is not required in the INPUT$ Function or the EOF function.

Syntax: INPUT$(bytes, filenumber)

If the string exceeds 32,767 characters(bytes) there will be a string error!
So check the LOF(1) first!

[izidor]

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OPEN "file.txt" FOR INPUT AS #1
 a$=INPUT$(LOF(1),#1)
PRINT a$
CLOSE #1

This works fine, but are there any ideas for the first one?

Thanks

[burger2227]

Do you mean the fixed length string? Fixed length strings are required in Random file record fields. You can define them in a TYPE definition or a FIELD statement.

Why are you using one anyhow? Anything over 1000 characters (1000 bytes) will be lost. INPUT # is used in sequencial files normally and has problems with commas in number values. LINE INPUT # is used to read entire lines of a file as variable length text. It has no problems with commas. In fact it can return a line of data with any quotes from a file created by WRITE #.

[izidor]

I am trying to create text editor.