Re: TIB: String Arrays, GOSUB

To: ti-basic@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: TIB: String Arrays, GOSUB
From: "Aaron Hertz" <ahertz@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 17:31:30 PDT
Reply-To: ti-basic@lists.ticalc.org




>Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 15:44:04 -0700
>From: Peter Sahlstrom <petes@technologist.com>
>To: ti-basic@lists.ticalc.org
>Subject: TIB: String Arrays, GOSUB
>Reply-To: ti-basic@lists.ticalc.org
>
>I originally learned basic using GW-BASIC in about 1988, and I've
>noticed two major things TI-BASIC appears to be missing:
>
>   * String Arrays-for instance, A$(1)="A", A$(2)="B", A$(3)="C", etc.
>     Is there a way to simulate these in TI-BASIC?
>   * GOSUB & Subroutines-for instance:
>          10 PRINT "Hello";
>          20 GOSUB 50
>          30 PRINT "Goodbye";
>          40 GOSUB 50:END
>          50 FOR I=1 TO 5
>          60 PRINT ".";
>          70 FOR J=1 TO 1000
>          80 NEXT J
>          90 NEXT I
>          100 RETURN
>
>     I know it's possible to do something similar to what is done in
>     lines 20 & 40 by calling another program, and having the called
>     program have a RETURN statement at the end, but it would simplify
>     my programming greatly if I was able to do in-program subroutine
>     calls.
>
>Thanks for your help everybody!
>
>--
>Peter Sahlstrom
>petes@technologist.com/petersahlstrom@geocities.com
>http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/1950 (Homepage)
>
>
It's possible on the 92 using locally defined programs to simulate a 
GOSUB, but there's no way that I know of to do it on other calcs.  I'm 
also stumped on string arrays.



--==Aaron Hertz==--
-=ahertz@hotmail.com=-


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