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the same.

*That's what I said. (nm) - Puckdropper, Mon Jan 29 2007 9:58am
- But you can have a string of one character. It works the...- Nuke, Wed Jan 31 2007 10:34am
- - *True, but it's still a single char string. (nm) - Puckdropper, Wed Jan 31 2007 1:43pm
  - - Which is more memory space than needed to be wasted. - Nuke, Fri Feb 02 2007 6:49am
      I could convert int's to ascii using the "CHR$([ASCII #])"
    - - *Ints are still 2-bytes. (nm) - Puckdropper, Fri Feb 02 2007 4:31pm
      - *And how many are STRING * 1? (nm) - Nuke, Fri Feb 16 2007 10:58am
        
        5. 4+n where n is the number of chars in the string. - Puckdropper, Fri Feb 16 2007 6:25pm
        Unless you use a fixed length string, where then the size is n bytes.
        
        *Yikes. Shame they didn't have a CHARACTER type. (nm) - Nuke, Wed Feb 21 2007 8:09am
        
        *Besides you, who needs it? (nm) - Puckdropper, Thu Feb 22 2007 5:49am
        
        *I like it. I NEED it. (nm) - Nuke, Thu Feb 22 2007 9:00am
        
        Hm... Well looks like you've got access to a C-compiler... - Puckdropper, Thu Feb 22 2007 4:40pm
        You can rewrite QB and add a CHAR datatype, or just live with the space penalty. Oooh! Oooh! I know! You can create defined strings of every string that you can have, and then use those throughout your program. Think of the number of times you'll save four bytes!
        
        Ahem, I do that. :P - Nuke, Thu Mar 01 2007 7:11am
        I declare all my variables in Qbasic. (well, all those that aren't frivolous in a sub or function). My single characters are defined as: DIM yesOrNo AS STRING * 1 see?
        
        I see the declaration... - Puckdropper, Fri Mar 02 2007 5:38pm
        However, I think it's relatively pointless to declare all your QB variables. Oh, but you've not declared every string you'll ever use so you may still have to pay that 4 byte penalty.
        
        *It keeps it neater and easier to keep track of. - Nuke, Mon Mar 05 2007 10:26am
        ...plush C/C++ sort of drills it into your brain.
        
        plush c/c++? Isn't that like Java? - Puckdropper, Mon Mar 05 2007 1:25pm
        Only thing is Java's plush where plain is required.
        
        *Good humorous save. It was just simply a typo. (nm) - Erik, Fri Apr 20 2007 9:46am
        
        *Java joke season never ends. (nm) - Puckdropper, Fri Apr 20 2007 11:42pm
        
        *That's just b/c the language itself is one. (nm) - Erik, Sun Apr 22 2007 5:35pm
        
        Guy: I'd like two Java-mocha lattes, please. - Puckdropper, Sun Apr 22 2007 8:03pm
        One with sugar and one without. Other guy: I can't do that. You asked in the wrong way.

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