Microsoft KB Archive/64896

= &quot;Statement Unrecognizable&quot; Using &quot;_&quot; in DATA Statement =

Article ID: 64896

Article Last Modified on 8/16/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft QuickBasic 4.0
 * Microsoft QuickBASIC 4.0b
 * Microsoft QuickBasic 4.5 for MS-DOS
 * Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System 7.0
 * Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System 7.1
 * Microsoft BASIC Compiler 6.0
 * Microsoft BASIC Compiler 6.0b

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This article was previously published under Q64896



SUMMARY
The line-continuation character in Basic (the underscore, &quot;_&quot;) cannot be used to continue a DATA statement. Using an underscore on a DATA statement gives a &quot;Statement unrecognizable&quot; error message at compile time. This is a design limitation of the line-continuation feature of Microsoft Basic compilers.

The following lines, when compiled, demonstrate this behavior:   DATA 10, 20, 30,_ 40, 50, 60

Additional query words: QuickBas BasicCom

Keywords: KB64896

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