?STRING TOO LONG ERROR

adric22 · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 3:57 pm Post subject: ?STRING TOO LONG ERROR

Lovely.. So I have this huge array of strings in BASIC. Each string is 210 characters long.

I need to save this array to a disk. No problem. I just use a small loop and a bunch of PRINT#2 statements.

The problem is when I go to load it back from the disk. I use a loop of INPUT#2 statements but I get the error "?STRING TOO LONG." After doing some research on the INPUT# command I found out that it can only handle strings up to 80 characters.

So now I'm back to the drawing board. I can think of other ways to load the data in, such as using GET#2 and reading one character at a time an appending it to a string. But that would slow things down to an intolerable speed. Any thoughts?

groepaz · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 3:58 pm Post subject:

break down each string into 3 of them?
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adric22 · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 4:05 pm Post subject:

groepaz wrote:

break down each string into 3 of them?

I assume you mean I'd have to do this during the save routine as well as the load routine. Any way you can think of handling it without modifying the save routine?

groepaz · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 4:11 pm Post subject:

no, if you want to read it back using input, then you must make sure the strings have the proper length - or use get, which is slowass Smile

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malcontent · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 10:51 pm Post subject:

Maybe poke a new start & end of basic to block save/load the variables?
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