Article ID: 42669
Article Last Modified on 11/21/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft QuickBasic Compiler for Macintosh 1.0
- Microsoft BASIC Interpreter 1.0
- Microsoft BASIC Interpreter 1.01 for Macintosh
- Microsoft BASIC Interpreter 2.0
- Microsoft BASIC Interpreter 2.1 for Macintosh
- Microsoft BASIC Interpreter 3.0 for Macintosh
- Microsoft QuickBasic 1.0
- Microsoft QuickBasic 1.01
- Microsoft QuickBasic 1.02
- Microsoft QuickBasic 2.0
- Microsoft QuickBasic 2.01
- Microsoft QuickBasic 3.0
- Microsoft QuickBasic 4.0
- Microsoft QuickBASIC 4.0b
- Microsoft QuickBasic 4.5 for MS-DOS
- Microsoft BASIC Compiler 6.0
- Microsoft BASIC Compiler 6.0b
- Microsoft GW-BASIC Interpreter 3.20
- Microsoft GW-BASIC Interpreter 3.22
- Microsoft GW-BASIC Interpreter 3.23
- Microsoft Visual Basic 1.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q42669
SUMMARY
The LINE INPUT #n statement strips null characters (CHR$(0)) from input files. If you want to input null bytes, you must use the INPUT$ function instead of the LINE INPUT #n statement.
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Code Sample
The following code segment will print "helloworld" instead of "hello world":
OPEN "test.dat" FOR INPUT AS #1
LINE INPUT #1, a$
PRINT a$
CLOSE #1
where the TEST.DAT data file was created as follows:
OPEN "test.dat" FOR OUTPUT AS #1
PRINT #1, "hello" + CHR$(0) + "world"
CLOSE #1
Additional query words: QuickBas BasicCom MQuickB 1.00 2.00 2.10 3.00 3.20 4.00 4.00b 4.50 6.00 6.00b 7.00 7.10
Keywords: KB42669
