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From: muller@alliant.UUCP
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Subject: Re: comma input
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Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 12:49:42 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  8 12:49:42 1987
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In article <8706300937.aa12986@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> CC004019@BROWNVM.BITNET (Christopher Chung) writes:
>Is there a way to have the INPUT statement in BASIC not give the error
>?EXTRA IGNORED when a comma is inputted along with the rest of the characters?
>I remember reading something about this a long time ago but can't remember
>where.  Can anyone help?

The proper approach is to avoid using INPUT at all.  Instead, read input
character by character using GET.  (If you are reading numerical input,
you will have to convert these to values, but it isn't too hard.)  After each
character is entered, it can be added onto the end of the already existing
input string.

The Applesoft (or was it the DOS3.3?) manuals used to give such an example
as an "input anything" routine.