Hi all,

 

            Had a report that the users wanted to review to their
screens prior to printing, so I just set the print file's ASSIGN clause
to $STDLIST, and all appeared to be working fine except when the program
reads a record of spaces in a file.  When that happens, BB does not
print the spaces.

 

Check out this snippet of code (and the code run) I wrote to test/prove
the bug/feature, and if anyone has suggestions, please chime in:

 

10 ASSIGN "$STDLIST" TO #1

 20 ASSIGN "HOSED" TO #2

 30 DIM A$[80]

 40 DIM X

 50 PRINT #2;"EAT MY SHORTS"

 60 PRINT #2;"                   "

 70 PRINT #2;"EAT MY SHORTS AGAIN"

 80 ASSIGN * TO #2

 90 ASSIGN "HOSED" TO #2

100 READ #2;A$                       

110 PRINT #1;A$

120 READ #2;A$                       

130 PRINT #1;A$

140 READ #2;A$

150 PRINT #1;A$

 

>RUN

EAT MY SHORTS

EAT MY SHORTS

EAT MY SHORTS AGAIN

 

>:PRINT HOSED 

EAT MY SHORTS

 

EAT MY SHORTS AGAIN

> 

 

As you can see, the file, HOSED, looks as it should, but A$ is not
cleared and replaced with spaces on the second read.  I tried this with
both temp and perm files, and I get the same results.  If I PRINT to a
file or LP, then the spaces are printed...it just seems to be incorrect
when I PRINT to $STDLIST.

 

I know many may reply to use the DISP verb rather than PRINT, but I did
not want to rework the code (it still has to print to LP, also), so
again, any help would be great.

 

 

 

TIA,

 

 

 

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