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From: jearls@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (  Chumley The Troll  )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: BASIC.SYSTEM v1.3
Message-ID: <1989Sep28.183623.14863@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 28 Sep 89 18:36:23 GMT
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In article <19755@unix.cis.pitt.edu> evan@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Evan Ron Aussenberg) writes:
>
>Not having done more with AppleSoft lately than to exec a file, I
>was surprised to see the INPUT routine stripping the leading spaces
>from my input string in a 3 line program I chanced to write.
>
>Is my memory going or is this a new feature with Basic.System v1.3?
>(I have an Apple IIGS)
>

This has been in AppleSoft since day 1.  It will always eat beginning spaces
>>unless<< the very first character of the line being input is a quote (").
This also allows you to have commas and colons in the input line, I believe.

>
>-Evan
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- John
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